Order of the Kite for Distinguished Service Tokyo, June 20.
With a major-general heading the list} the eleventh group of war honours, comprising 2,064 officers and men, was announced by the War Office here last night following Imperial approval. Included were 1,980 recipients of the coveted Order of the Golden Kite, including 66 who received special mention. The order of the Golden Kite is awarded only for distinguished service in the field, Included among those receiving honours were officers and men killed in the Changkufeng incident of last year, when Japanese and Soviet troops clashed on the Korean border. Others were killed in action in Shanghai, Nanking, Hsuchow, and operations in Shansi and in the Wuhan area from the period of June 29, 1927 to January 1 this year—
Currency, Laws, Educat Will be Discussed Nanking, June 20.
The fixing of an official exchange rate between Federal Reserve Bank notes, now the only legal tender in North China with the exception of two minor bank issues, and the currency now circulating Min territory under the jurisdiction of the "Reformed Government" will form one of the main subjects for discussion at the fifth meeting of the Joint Commission of the "Reformed" and "Provisional" regimes to open in Peiping on July 1, Domei learned today.
Other subjects for discussion are the unification of laws and regulations, the standardization of educational institutions, the revision of school textbooks, and Yellow River conservancy projects.
Mr. Liang Hung-chih, President of the Executive Yuan; Mr. Wen Tsung-yao, President of the Legislative Yuan, and Mr. Cheng Chun, Minister of the Interior, will represent the Nanking administration at the Peiping meeting. They are to leave for the northern capital on June 28 or 29.—Domei.
Commanding Officer Listed As Defendant Portsmouth, June 20.
A four man court of inquiry began an official investigation here yesterday of the submarine Squalus disaster in which 26 men lost their lives.
The investigation will seek to determine whether faulty construc tion was responsible for the accident or whether a court martial should be ordered.
The court questioned the 33 sur vivors of the disaster, including Lieut. Oliver Naquin, commander, who was listed as "defendant."
The commander of the ill-fated craft, who was the first to be rescued. said he had "nothing but praise" the way his officers and men ducted themselves in the #mergency Lieut. Naquin left the submarine first in order to test the rescue apparatus nited Press Domei.
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