New Year's Honours The Far East again figures in the New Year's Honours ist, for in addition to the Hongkong and Canton residents who have been honoured. Mr. G. S. Moss, British Consul-General Hankow has been raised to the knighthood as Knight Commander of the British Empire, and Mr. W. 8, King has been granted the CHE. Mr. G.'S. Moss has had a long and honourable career in the British Consular Service in China, and has made a host of friends in all places where he has been stationed. He has, naturally, been having a particularly dimeult time in Hankow of late, and it is to be assumed that the honour bestowed upon him has been recognition not only of his career as a Whole but of this last fact as well. Mr. W. S, King, of Messrs, Harrisons, King & Irwin, of Shang hai, Is an old resident, who for some years past has rendered excellent service asa member of Sino-British Board of Trustees, administer-Ing the British Boxer Indemnity, He has also rendered good service to the local community a member of the S. M. Council, and the Committee of the British Chamber' of Commerce and his Commandership of the Order of the British Empire will be regarded by his many friends as a distinction which has been well-earned. Amongst the other honours which have been granted it is interesting fo note that the Order of Merit has been conferred upon Sir James Jeans the famous sclent-Ist, author of "The Stars in their Courses," and other well known works. The grant of a peerage to Mr. Cecil Harmsworth elevates the third "of that family, for he is the younger brother of the late Lord Northcliffe, and of Lord Rothermere, having commenced to earn his own distinction not as a newspaper baron, wat as a former Under-Secretary of Stale for Foreign Affairs.
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