Rewarded; Tientsin Brigade Major Decorated London, June 8.
The gallantry of a Shanghai resident, Mr. F. C. Anderson, Chief Engineroom Artificer attached to the British Naval Office in Shanghai, is recognized in the King's Birthday Honours List which includes five new Peers.
Mr. Anderson has been awarded the Medal of the Military Division of the British Empire for his brave act on July 25 last year when, although unarmed, he tackled and caused the arrest of a Chinese terrorist who had made an abortive attempt on the life of Mr. Yih Kyi-van, a Ta Tao Salt Revenue inspector in the International Settlement.
Other Far Eastern personages honoured include:
Mr. H.J.P. Anderson, former Chairman of the Kulangsu Municipal Council, who has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire Major Charles Delamain, R.A., Brigade Major in the Tientsin area, who has been given the same honour Captain Jose Simao Rodrigues, of the Portuguese. companies of the Hongkortg Volunteer Defence Force, who has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (W.B-E-); Professor K. H. Digby, of Hongkong, who has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire Today saw the first meeting between King George and President Roosevelt, heads of countries whose Populations total a halt billion people.
The King and Queen were greeted by a 21 gun salute and ten giant "Flying Fortresses" and 42 pursuit planes manceuvres overhead as they emerged from their train and walked down a star-studded blue carpet flanked by a double row of U.S. Marines to the President's reception room inside the station.
The King and Queen were escorted to the President's reception room by the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, Mrs. Hull, and the British Ambassador to Washington, Sir Ronald Lindsay, all of whom had come from Niagara Falls on the royal train after meeting Their Majesties dt the United States border last night.
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