The announcenient that the French Government has conferred! the Cross of the Legion of Honour upon Mr. E. C. Pearce and Mr. W. J. N. Dyer will be received with most genuine pleasure by their fellow-countrymen and, indeed, by all residents. For both Mr. Pearce and Mr. Dyer are deserved ly popular, apart from the public services that they have rendered. Mr. Pearce is probably ired by now of reading eulogies on his long term: of office as Chairman of the Council. But Shanghai, whatever its faults, is not ungrateful and it will be specially glad that the French Government is not unmindful of Mr. Pearce's work and of what he did directly and indirectly for the cause of all the Allies. Not less heartily do we congratulate Mr. Dyer. There may ave men in the past who have served for more than 15 years as a Councillor, but certainly none whose service coincided with such wide development as the French Concession has seen in these years, in all of which we may believe that Mr. Dyer has been a valuable—as it is clear he has been a valued coadjutor.
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