London, June 9.
E Kings Birthday Honours includes two new peers, the promotion of two barons to the rank of viscount, six new baronetcies, and one new Privy Councillor.
Lord Weir, who until recently was acting as special industrial adviser to the Air Council and who resigned at the same time as Viscount Swinton, then Secretary of State for Air, is made a viscount, as is Lord Stone-haven, former Governor-General of Australia, who was chairman of the Conservative Party Organization from 1931 to 1936.
Rear-Admiral Reginald Holt, who went in H.M.S. Bee to the sene of the survivors of the U.S.S. Panay, is made a C. B. (Companion of the Bath). Further reflection of the difficult and aPdueus work which conditions in the Far East have involved British. officials is noted in the conferment of honours on Mr. A. B. Blackburn, Counsellor of the British Embassy in China, and Mr. Herbert Phillips, British Consul-General in Shanghai, who are made Knights Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.MG.).
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