Success need not be feared to attend his mission.

"_Ils perdront et leur temps et leur argent._" Monsieur Haas has helped to make history in his time.

The most gentle-mannered of men, he writes with strange rancour against the perfidious designs of Britain in the East.

In his diplomatic career Monsieur Haas suffered one great disappointment.

He was formerly the French Charge d'Affaires and Political Resident at the court of King Theebaw in Mandalay.