Government Distributes Gold and Silver Medals years.
His career dates from February 2, 1913, and is terminated after 21 years service. Two years after joining he was despatched to Vladivostok, where. hhis intelligence work assisted the Allied effort against the Reds, Gazetted on several occasions Inspr. Schmidt has. solved several baffling crimes which have confronted the Force. Detached for special duty, hhis efforts brought to justice the burglars who victimized Messrs Ullman & Ca, in the notorious diamond robbery four years ago. Much earlier he was behind the investigations which ended in the arrest of those who perpetrated the Miku. more ($65,000) jewellery robbery in 1916. Since the war he attended to the suppression of the white slave operations in Shanghai and now the: Ueague of Nations has valuable fes fin connection with this nefarious trafic in the Orient.
Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt, after a trip to Europe, will reside in Hongkong, where their seventeen-year old son to go to college.
In appreciation of their services rendered in the campaign for funds for the purchase of military planes for the Government, more than 250 individuals and public organizations were awarded medals by the Government and the China Aviation nel Club, -Kweichow Road, League at a ceremony held in the
on Saturday afternoon.
'The Tien Chu Seasoning Power Factory and the Nanyang Brothers 'Tobacco Ca. which contributed Junkers' plane and a large amount of money respectively, were each awarded a gold medal, while Chinese Chamber of" Commerce, Ningpo Natives' Guild, Chinese Bankers' Association, Flour Mer= chants' Association, and Changchow and Chuanchow Natives' Guilds, were each awarded a silver medal.' Gen, Wu Te-chen, Mayor of Shanghai, Mr. Pan Kung-chai, Commissioner of Education of the City Government, Gen, Yang Hu, Commander of ihe Peace Preservation Corps, Mr. Tu Yueh-sun and many others wore awarded various kinds of medals for Registration of British subjects will commence at H.M, Consulate-eneral fon January 4, and attention is again being oMclally called to the neces sity for registration before the end of January. their work.
The China Aviation League is also planning to erect a tablet in the Civic Centre in honour of those who have contributed more than $500 towards the aviation funds. ves, he is getting on very nicely!"
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