In recognition of their services and charity work, the Chinese Gov-Jernment awarded' medals of the JOnder of Brilliant Jade to five Chinese residents in Shanghai last Wednesday at a ceremony held in the garden of Me. Wong King-yung, pro rioter of a group of Chinese theatres, at Tsaohoching on the western out skirts of Shanghai. Dr. Chu. Ming-yi, Chief Secretary of the Executive Yuan, represented the Government lat the ceremony.
'The recipients' were: Mr. Tu Yueh: sung, director of the Bank of China, Mr. Wong King-yung, Mr. Chang Shao-ling, Mr. Wu Zai-yuan, cotton merchant, and Mr. Hsu Mow-tang. The award was recommended by Mr. Hsu Shiheying, chairman of the National Famine Relief Commission, for their generous contributions to: wards the relief of drought suffers last year.
Another medal of the Order of the Brilliant Jade was awarded to Mr. An Boon-haw, Chinese Singapore itionalre, for his donations to vari-jous constructive projects in China when he paid a visit to this country fast year. The medal will be sent to him by the Overseas Affairs Commission, 'Mr. C.F. Bartz, who has been Jacting as cotton expert to the Central Bank of China since the flotation Jot the American cotton and wheat Yoan to China, left for the [United States by' the Empress of Russia on Monday. While in. Shanghat Mr. Bartz has been the manager of the Chinese-American "Cotton Syndicate. In the United States he has his own firm, Bartz & Ca, of (Dallas, Texas. He intends to spend some time seeing to the business of his firm before going on to Europe,
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