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Show DIPLOMATS ARE SHOCKED BY DEATH OF FORMER ENVOY WAS k? iNYro.", Keb. H. P:p n;t'j. ! Washington ss Fho-'keH todav fcy the ! nes of tt.e scidn dj;.th In ''tii.va of i sir ee'-tl Arthur Spn n -;-Kicc, wao reu;vd after r-e.iriy five years' --erlce ?s l'-rit- , ish amba.sador to the I'nited Star-.-s early last month in i'aur of Lord TveaJm,. ' Although it had been Known tiAi Sir Cecil had desired for a lon time be:'o;u Ins retirement tvas announced lo be re-ho re-ho ed of h;s l;ea y riutu.s in cl:arse of the e:r.onfsy, no intimation was siven when he left Va.shinton that lie was In M-ht-alth. Ho'.vever, .officials here pointed out that he had been under tremendous strain from rcsponsiMlttte devoh. ;r.n' upon him, ept'Cially durir.i; t;'e iifjjotiat'.ons . on the operation of th allit-d hhcka io tefore he United States entered tho it iras kno n that Sir Cecil tpnden-d hi? . resismatiOM uurit.k; liie sit iiere uf Ar-! Ar-! thur I'.ahot; r. to take ef :ect at the con-! con-! enier.ee of the foreign office. J 1 is te-1 te-1 tirement was annojneed from London on j January in connection with a reor-i reor-i ganiza t;on of per-onnel of th Krit's-h diplomatic service, which alto retired i Lord Bertie as British ambassador to . Phi-is. Th embassy here was in charge of : Coivilie Bar-lay, its counsellor, un'.i: Loid ! Keadm.; arrived last wecli. Career of Spring-Rice. Sir Cecil, wno became British a.T.hns-sador a.T.hns-sador here May 6. lli, succeed in? Am- I bassador James Bryce. now Viscount ! Bryce, was born in lj39 and spent 'nany y ea.rs in the B n t : s h d ; p i o m a ; i service. He came to Washington first as third assistant as-sistant secretary of the embassy in li;o and was appointed acting second secretary I to act as secretary to the British dele- j gation to the international marine confer- ence August 2, !;. After serving for! a time at Brussels and Tokio. he was I aeain transferred to Washington in li3. He was successively charge d'affaires and minister to Persia from l'-0 to He , then became minister to Sweden and left Stockho.m to accept the ambassadorship here. His ear.ier services here were remembered re-membered during" the da ys . of Lord Pauncefote. He was created K. C. M. G. in lyc5. Sir Cecil's difficult task her during the early years of the war, inducing the American government to accept with equanimity the oppressive regulations of the entente blockade, was looked upon as an unusual achievement. What diplomats regard as some of the most ingenious and remarkable state papers in. the history of foreign interchamze found their origin In the British embassy here in support of the policies resorted to to meet Germany's Ger-many's disregard of the established rules of warfare. Polk to Attend FuneraL Frank L. Polk, counsellor of the state department, has been designated to attend at-tend the funeral of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice as the personal representative of President Presi-dent Wilson. President Wilson Teas Informed formally for-mally of the death of the late ambassador In a" telegram from the Duke of Devonshire, Devon-shire, governor general ot Canada, He sent this reply: His Grace, the "Duke of Devonshire, Ottawa, Canada: May I not thank you earnestly for the courtesy of your message informing inform-ing me of the death of Sir Cecil Spring -Rice and bee that you will convey to Lady Snrinir-Rire for Mrs. Wilson and myself our profoundest sympathy for the death of her husband, hus-band, whom we had come to esteem as a friend as much as a man, and for whose loss we personally grieve? (Signed) WCODROW WILSON. Of the embassy staff. Commodore Guy Gaunt, naval liaison officer; Thomas B. Hohler. second counsellor; Horace Seymour, Sey-mour, third secretary; Captain Angus Mcintosh, Mc-intosh, honorary attache, and A. A. Pa-ton. Pa-ton. assistant commercial adviser, wiU go to Ottawa to attend the funeral. At the same hour of the funeral at Ottawa (3 o'clock Saturday afternoon), services will be conducted here at the St. Alban's Episcopal cathedral. The diplomatic corps and officials of the L'nited Stated government will be invited to attend. |