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, in an unmistakeable manner, recognition of services rendered during the difficult period following the outbreak of hostilities last August, An emergency of unparalleled proportions involved Shanghai and the way it was faced by the British community added lustre to the history of the British connection with Shanghai and has found proportionate regard in the Honours List. Two names of British Army officers did not find mention in the original list but attention is directed to them. Captain T. G. Rennie, of The Black Watch, received the [O.B.E, and Captain J, V. Davidson Houston, received the M.B.E., Captain Rennie was formerly Brigade Major of the British military forces in Shanghai and served in that post during the strenuous times when the British section of the perimeter was merely the neutral boundary of a battlefield. Many and difficult were the problems which Captain Rennie, under Major-General A.P.D. Telfer-Smollett, had to handle during a period when even a neutral force engaged in defending the Settlement sustained casualties.—Captain Davidson Houston, who is G.S.O, 3,.has been in the heart of things militarily in China for some years, and in the midst of his duties which have taken him on long journeys through unfrequented parts of China he was able to exercise a flair for journalism which gained him publication and fame in the columns of "'Blackwood's,"
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