Among the naval honours gazetted appear the names of Rear-Admiral Zdward Leigh Stuart King, Chief-of-St^ff of the Home Fleet, awarded the C.B. (Companion of the Order of the Bath); Captains A. R, Halfhide, G. H. Freyberg and J. N. Tait receive the C.B.E. (Commander of the Ord of the British Empire); Commanders C. E. Hammond, St. John Aldrich Micklethwait, G. F. Stevens-Guille, 1. A.K. Boswell and It-Commander Bernard Maloney. are awarded the D.SO. (Distinguished Service Order) for conspicuous service.
In addition. many officers received the O.B.E, (Officer of the Order of the British Empire} A long list of officers and ratings are honoured with the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Em-
Up-river Gunboats To Be Laid Up pire), the DSM. (Medal for Distinguished Service) and the D.S.C. (Distinguished: Service Cross), while others are mentioned in dispatches.
In accordance with their Shanghai Briton Honoured policy to reduce the number of gunboats on the Yangtze River in order to fulfill military requirements elsewhere and to release a number of trained officers and men for employment on active service, His Majesty's Government have decided to lay up two of the three gufiboats now on the river above Hankow. This operation will accordingly take place in the near future.
The promotion of a Shanghai-born Briton heads the list of Royal Air Force and Naval honours made public today.
The Shanghai Briton is Kennedy Dudley Stanion. who has been promoted from Flight Lieutenant to Squadron-Leader in the air force.
Cmdr. J. A, S. Ecoles who is promoted captain is well-known in Shanghai, having served on the Commander-in-Chiefs staff in HMS.
Cumberland up to 1937. His last ship was the aircraft carrier Ark Royal Naval Officers Decorated and advance southward into Honan province in an effort to effect a junction with Japanese forces moving northward from Hankow.
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