General, has given his approval to the issue of a medal which will be awarded to members of all volunteer and auxiliary forces of the French Concession for services rendered, according to the French Municipal Gazette.
All members of the volunteers and the specials may be given the new award by the French Contul-General whenever the importance and the length of duty should warrant it.
The commanders of the various voluntary organizations will be asked to prepare lists of those of their men whom they propose for the decoration, and will have to bear in mind the instructions which they will receive from the French Consul-General with regard to the minimum; period of time which they will have to have served with their respective corps in order to be entitled to the medal.
The ribbon of the medal will have a clasp on which mention will be made of the period of service for which the medal is awarded and every time that the Consul-General decides to award the medal to members of the various voluntary units, an additional clasp will be added with a similar mention.
The International Settlement, it will be recalled, had a similar medal struck with which all members of the Shanghai Municipal Police, the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, the Fire Brigade and the Specials were decorated and some 8000 presentations were made.
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