Shanghai has every right to be proud of the mention of many of Its leading citizens in the King's Birthday Honours List' which reflects, an_unmistakeable manner, recognition of services rendered during the diMieult period fol-Towing the outbreak of hostilities last August, An emergency of unparelieled proportions. volved Shanghai and the way it was faced by {fie British community" added rustre to. the history of the British connection with Shanghai And has found proportionate regard. in. the Honours. List. Two names of British Army fofticors did' not find mention in the original list hut attention Is directed to them, Captain T. Rennie, of The Black Watch, received the ©.B.E, and Captain J, V. Davidson Houston, received the MHE, Captain Rennie was for: merly Brigade Major of the British military forces in Shanghai and served In. that post during the strenuous times when the British nection of the perimeter was merely" the neutral boundary of a battlefield. " Many and cult were the problems which Captain under Major-General APD. Telfer-Smolleit, hid. to handle during a period when even i iieuteal force engaged in defending. the sustained casualties, Captain Davidson Houston, who is G.8.0, 3, has been of thingy militarily in' China for trid in the midst of his duties which ken him on Ton Journeys through wie frequented parts of Chinn be was able to exercise fair for Journalism which gained him Publication all fame in the columns of "Blackwood Japanese Car Drivers 1 is interesting to tara from Dome thal the apanese authorities north of Soochow Creek ive determined to put a slop to the spreading pidemie of motor car accidents which is to be lineted in that-area, The eccentric behaviour of we divers of mot eck, theb they. of the roads of most-unt ud has aroused fact that these drivers ity of precisely the same offences very eyes of their own authorities suggests that most of them must be incompetent find ought not to be trusted with anything so deadly ity a motor vehicle, "That contention appears to be accepted by ihe Japanese consular holies who give as two of the causes for the mimper of necidents the increase in the' number of untigensed drivers and the increase inthe number of vehicles not carrying Meence The defiance of the ordinary trate and of the Municipal Coun which the Japanese ure just as much bound by fis other nationals, ix bearing such sorry fruit that the Jupanese officials themselves have been Torcedt to consider the taking of appropriate action,—'That_will not solve the whole of the yeah motor Hho. are usin myers of ayin hath anid south of Syochow Creek in, for ner, and it is neces Bury not only nese consular police: hhauld take action within their own bailiwick, but that they should ce-operate with the Muni: cipal Police in bringing to justice, those who Hnreak: the rules south of the Soochow Creek hho fa any' action Is being taken at all is mest gratifying, but it would look decided Getter if the Japanese authorities assisted in th maintenance of trate order all over Shanghai, Tt Rai neth Every Day has of to complain about the the last few weeks. Instead of burst-full heat of summer, with the ex-of one brief spell of unusually high tem= there his been steady rainfall Acends and interfering with the anti monthly drawing of the Central sai igs Sociely will take place on June 15. general meeting of the Yanatsxe bbe held on June 27.
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