Weihaiwei, Jan, 7.
Our local Government Gazette of the 2nd instant contains the following notification "Tt is notified for general information that a telegram has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies announcing that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve the following appointments Arthur Powlett Blunt, Officer Administering the Government of this Territory, to be a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George: William McNiven Muat, Senior Medical Officer of this Territory, to be a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division. It is further notified that His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve the grant of the King's Police Medal to Inspector Alfred _Whittaker and Inspector Frank Forcey, Inspectors of (Police in this Territory."
Congratulations from all -their friends, and this community in particular, to these recipients of well-deserved honour and official acknowledgment of public services rendered!
Mr. A. P. Blunt is a member of the Consular Service and did his bit in the Great War as a Captain in the Chinese Labour Corps. On demobilization he was seconded for service at Weihaiwei and took up his work as Senior District Officer in the spring of 1919. Two yearg later, on the retirement of Sir James Lockhart, Mr. Blunt was _appointed Acting Commissioner. Latterly his has been the responsible task of representing the Colonial Office on the joint Retrocession Commission.
Dr. W. M. Muat has seen service under the Colonial Office both in Nigeria and at Weihaiwei for about 22 years. Here he has been Senior Medical Officer for the past. 17 years.
Inspectors Whittaker and Forcey were formerly non-commissioned officers of the Chinese Regiment, and have been in charge of local police forces for 20 and 16 years respectively.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.