Many friends in the Far East will be glad to see that the name of Lady de Sausmarez is included in the list of Birthday Honours. Under her guidance and inspiration the British Women's Work Association grew to be a very great and beneficent institution, and the recognition thus given of de Sausmarez's unremitting efforts iz well deserved. Congratulations are due also to Major Canning and to Mr. 'T. Leslie on the reward of their war work. Furthermore the British community in Shanghai will be glad to see that Sir John Jordan becomes a G. C. M. G. and that Mr., now Sir Beilby Alston receives the honour to which his position and his merits both entitle him. But—and it is a very emphatic but—there Will be no two opinions that the list stops short far-too soon regards British subjects in the Far East. It would be invidious to mention any particular name, and at the same time it is unnecessary to do so; for there are three which will occur at once to every reader, whose owners richly deserve some reward, the more so that they are the kind of men with whom any thought of honour to be earned should be the last to enter their minds. The excuse that the British Government cannot confer honours for work done in international service is surely rather thin. It could. at least recognize the share of British interests benefited by that work, and we are sure that the Allied Governments, who now alone count in Shanghai, would be glad if it did so.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.