Altogether 9,000 Will be Given S.M.C. Employees Altogether 2299 of the Shanghai Municipal Council's medal for the 1937 emergency had been issued up io yesterday to members of the S.MP. Foreign, Japanese and Sikh Branches, the Municipal Jail staff and the Police Specials, In all, approximately 9,000 medals will be distributed. Those yet to receive the decorations: are members of the Police Chinese Branch, the Fire Brigade and the Shanghai Volunteer Corps. It has been strongly suggested, also, that the medal be given to the personnel of Shanghai public utilities who carried on so splendidly in the Eastern and other districts while the fighting was at its height.
The 1937 medal has been produced locally and is composed of copper, Chinese bronze, silver and tin, the latter two metals forming 5 per cent. of the contents. The ribbon is red and white, with thin black stripes and a narrow yellow margin. The obverse of the decoration bears the Council's seal superimposed on an eight-pointed star. One the reverse the following legend is engraved: "For Services Rendered—August 12 to November 12, 1937." A laurel wreath encircles the inscription The new' medal takes precedence over the Long Service Medal when worn together with it by Council Tue Central Civil Servants Disciplinary Commission, at a meeting held on Monday, acted on three cases recently referred to it for disposal, states message to the "Sin Wan Pao." One of the cases, which was brought up by the Control Yuan, concerned the misdemeanor of a judge in the branch Higher Court in Wenchow, Chekiang Mr. Wu Chung-lin, while the cther two cases, referred to the Commission by the Ministry of Judicial Administration, arose over the dereliction of duties: of gaol wardens in Chaoyi, (Shensi) and Anhua (Hunan), Messrs Chang Kwang-hua and Wang Chen-peng employees.
Mr. W. E. Fairbairn, Assistant Com-. missioner of Police, supervised the production of the medal.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.