Including 106 officers and men, who were the recipients of distinguished awards, a war honours list for 7,058 army war dead was announced at midnight jointly by the War Office end the Board of Decorations.
Those receiving the awards were 244 officers, 6,733 non-commissioned officers and privates, and 81 civilian auxiliaries. Of these 5,386 were killed in action and 1,672 died of wounds or sickness of the Shansi and Yangtze Itronts from August 1,1937 to December 25, 1939.
Among the 5,41 receiving the Order of the Golden Kite, the highest military award of the nation, were Lieut-Gen. Norishige Numata, who Cistinguished hianseif in the battles of Nanking and Wuhan, and Major-Gen. Koji Wada, who was regarded əs an expert in river-crossing operat: ons.—Domei.
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