26th November, 1902
The suggestion is an exelent one. We know, of cour-e, that the wer'd is always teddy to: stack st give thenelves medals " A tions, bet this is an entirely exceplrional ease, and Such a memento as fehis, even selt-bestowed, can never regarded even by the most cynicd with anything but respect There ca but one opinion'as conduct of the War Office in a clasp for Tientsin, where as been pointed out in the lead-Sing journals in China and London the fighting while it lasted was much {hotter than in Peking, while the life every foreigner in China hung on Nits -issne.- Why no clasp has been granted for this, while a clasp has been granted for what was little more than a naval promenade at Taku, is quit inexplicable to anyone but a War Office pormanen' official. Our army, however, is more or less used to these eccentricities, and will be as Jongas its destinies are directed by a wallrmeaning, plodding civilian ike the present Sveretary for War. There were Indies, too, at_ Tientsin who in the mids' of terrible hard-[ships, braved time after time a. shell fire such as the Legation never knew, {to carry. food and comforts to the fighting line, who have received no recognition at all except the un-\dy ltd of the-e to wont they ministered, But they lack the necessary nds at Court," without which merit mus: console itself with repeating once more that Virine is its own reward, The following contains the latest linfortation given to the House of Commons (on the 4°h nit.) in reference the clasp for Tientsin Major Rasch asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will lay upon the {table General Dorward's patch of november, 1901, with reference to the Chinese Regiment; and will he say when ther a clasp n for Tientsin.
Brodie question of a class it sidered by the War ras Office and Admiralty in China 1909 medal, and it was decided that tonly two clasps should be given, one for Taku and one for the relief of Po I have no copy of General Dorward's dispatch in my possession, but T understand thst it is not considered desirable to publish it.
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