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Robert CUMMINGS Mischa AUER ̈ Henry Stephenson Anne Gwynne Allyn Joslyn Franklin Pangborn BUTCH and BUDDY
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Thursday,
HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.
Eight Residents In Honours List
FROM PAGE ONE
Service, and is one of its chief sup
ports.
She arrived in Hongkong in 1924, having previously served as a nursing. nister with the Johore Government,
Vichy-Nazi Dealings Veiled
***> FROM PAGE_ONE have broken off negotiations, it is
reported here.
No Confirmation LONDON, Jan, 1 (Reuter), --No In her 10 years In the Colony, she confirmation of the breakdown of negolations between Petain and has served the Hongkong Govern- ment with devotion and distinction.tier have been received here and As Principal Matron, Miss Sutton in authoritative eireles it is pointed has been in-charge at the Queen out that all reports of this character
should be treated with reserve. Mary Hospital since its opening.
Mr L. Brewer
Mr Leslie Brewer has been Chief Inspector of the Sanitary Department since 1935. He has been in the Co- lony since 1911, and previous to joining the Sanitary services he was with the Kowloon-Canton Railway. -
Lady Pollock
Lady Pellock, wife of the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Executive and Legis- lative Councillor, has spent most of her life in the Colony during which time she has been active in practical ly every charitable and public wel faro organisation.
At present she and her husband ore in Australia, having left the
Colony In
Lady Pollack's chief Interests of recent years were the Street Sleepers Society and refugee camps, though she still continued to assist the St John's Cathedral Women's. Guild, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and other com- mittees.
Mr W. B. Finnigan
Mr W. B. Finnigan · received his honour for steady and meritorous service as Registrar to the Hongkong University, a position he held from
Fleet At North Africa
January 2, 1941.
FOUR NEW PEERS
FROM PAGE ONE
Ministry of Labour and a well-known
arbitrator in labour disputes.
Women Honoured
Women also figure prominently- four becoming Dames Commander of the British Empire. They are Miss Irene Vanbrugh, for services on the stage; Stella, Dowager Marchioness of Reading, Chairman of the Women's Voluntary Services for civil defence; Mrs Randra Stanley, for public and social welfare services in Southern Rhodesia; and Viscountess Craigavon
Jate widow of the
Promier
of Northern Ireland.
· LONDON, Jan;1 (Router). Petain's firm action in sending units of the French fleet to north Africa has baffled. Hitler, according to in When Hitler demanded an explana dependent French nows agency.
The New Year Honour List In- tion of the move he had to be satis-}-cludes the British Ambasador. 19 fled with the answer that the ships Japan, Sir Röberi Lesilo Craigío, P.C... were needed to protect the French K.UBLG. C.B, who becomes a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of 8t empire against de Gaulle.
Michael and St. George (G.C.MG.).
The
of the ships emphasises Petain's de
agency adds that the departure termination to make Germany strict- ly respect the spirit of the armistice,
Sweeping powers to control raw materials and factory products for the duration of the war were taken under Governmen; decree published to-day...
500 Survivors Of Raider
FROM PAGE ONE
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with his wife, he retired to live in Other references will be found on Victorin. B.C.
Paze 4. Finnigan come to the Colony Bombardment of Naura li. the education department of SYDNEY, Jan. 1 (Reuter).-The Bengal just after the arrival of Sir Commonwealth Government has ac- William Hornell. Throughout his quainted the Japanese Government stoy he gained
the affection and with the facts about the shelling of esteem of generations of under- Naura Island in the Pacifle by a
raider last week.
*Oversea Knighthoods
India, the Dominions and the Colonies have their customary, pro- minent share. Oversca knighthoods include Mr Ri. D.-Nicholls, Speaker of the House of Assembly of South Australia; Mr Edmund Charles Rich- ards, Resident Commissioner of Basutoland: Manohar Lal, Finance Minister of Punjab;' and Khan Bahadur Azizul Huq, Speaker of the Bengal Legislative Assembly,
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath-Sir Charles Bonham- Carter, Alde-de-Camp to the King and former Governor of Malta; and Sir Erle Phipps, former Ambassador to France.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath-Sir Marshall Ernest Leslie Gosange and Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary of Stale for Foreign, Affairs,
of
Knight and Cross of the Order Michael and St Georgċ- Harold MacMichael, High
graduates and played his part in the Genquiries now make it clear that sioner for Palestine, and Sir
continued growth of the University to its present status,
Detective Sheh Tui
the Hongkong Police Force.
the vessel flew the Nazi flag during | Leslie Cruigie,' Ambassador to Japan. the bombardment, though Japanese Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George--Mr. Principal Chinese Detective (Kow-ags were flown carller.
Prime Martin Huggins, loon) Shek Tui has received hia The Japanese Consul-General hopes Godfrey signal honour for one of the most to make a statement on the subject Minister of Southern Rhodesia.
to-morrow,
Knight Commander of the Order remarkable careers in the record 'ofi
of the British Em
Empire-
Mr Kenneth Oswald Pepplatt, chief enabler of the Bank of England, without whose signature no modern British bank- note is genuine; and Lt Col Frank Williern Frederick Johnson, who commanded the Ploneer Corps for the occupation1 of Southern Rhodesia (1890).
Since 1011 when he joined the service, his card is a long list of com- mendations and awards. Perhaps his most spectacular exploit was in 1924 when he received the Fourth Class Police Medal for his part in capturing armed bandits in Canton Road. This shooting affray in which Chief 3. C. S. Fender, Sergt J. (since invalided home) and bertson an Indian Sergeant, were wounded before four desperate Chinese were captured.
was n
LATE NEWS
New Year Day Thefts
Mr J. W. French of No. 18, Lock In 1931 Tul received the Third Cinss Road, reports that between 9 p.m. on Police Medal, in 1933 the Second New Year's Eve and 4 a.m. the next Class Police Medal, in 1937 the morning, someone broke into his fat Colonial Service Long Service Medal through a verandah window and stole and the First Bar.
He was commended by the Gov- ernor, the Commissioner of Police and Magistrates more than 15 times.
Japanese Lose Concession
chest of drawers. $480 from
Mr H. C. Keech of the same ad- dress had $407 stolen.
Mr A. C. Tribbel, 3 Cox's Path, had a spare wheel with Dunlop tyre stolen from his car which was parked outside his house, on New Year's Day.
Was silt open
Lieut. Munro of Guri Club Hill, reparts that the roof of his car parked SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" outside the · KEC. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 1 (UP)-It early on New Year's Day and an reliubly reported that the Govern-officer's military great coat and cap, ment has secretly cancelled the ex-valued at £70 were stolen. ploratory ofl concession which was granted to Japanese_interests-the Vera
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It is understood that the company
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Science Recognised
Science is recognised by the awards to Edward Victor Appleton, Secretary to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and to Michael Robert Thomson Leiper, Director of The Department of Parasitology of tlie London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the King, receives the Dis- tinguished Service Order. I re- cent cently brought his destroyer, Kelly, safely to. port after being torpedoed, and he also brought his next ship, the destroyer Javelin, safely to port after being torpedoed.
A notable feature of the list is the recognition of the part played by the aircraft industry in the success of the R.A.F. Sydney Camme of the Hawker Aircraft Company, and chief designer of the Hurricane fighters which have taken so heavy a toil of Germani machines becomes a Com- mander ofthe-Order I-of-the British Empire, and Frank Spencer Spriggs, managing director of the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company which are the manufacturers of Hurricanes, has been knighted,
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Ltd., whose engines are used in both Spitfires and Hurricanes, while R.K. Pierson, chief designer of Vickers Supermarine, makers of Spitfires, has been awarded the O.B.E. (Oncer of the Order of the British Empire).
The Assistant Managers and fore- men of famous aircraft fuctorles also figure in the list of officers of the Order of the British Empire.
Far East Awards
The new Commanders of the British Empire are William Herbert Evans Thomas, a British subject re- sident in Tientsin;
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Omcers of the British Empire.--- Lieutenant Colonel Lowthlan Hume Chidson, of the Straits Settlements Volunteer .Force; Charles Eric Whitamore, one of the British Con- Aula in China; Cheah Ewin Leng, for public services in the Malay States; Major Wilkins Fitzwilliam Chipp. forest engineer of the Malayan
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Secretary of Trengganu. Members of the British Empire are Warrant Officer Paul Evelyn Baskett and Captain Victor Cecil Branson, both of the Hongkong Volunteer De- fence Corps: Lieutenant Abdul
Hamid Khan, of the Malay States Volunteer Force; Cecil Hugh Rabbetis, archivist of the British Embaray in Shanghai: Leslie Brewer, Chiet Inspector of the Sanitary Department, Hongkong; John Schindeler de Villiers, Chlef Sanitary Inspector of the Straits Settlements: Captain Erle Seddon Lilley, Superintendent of Prisons, Malay States; Miss Ida Mabel Murray Simmons, of the Public Health Do- partment, Straits Settlements; and Miss Susan Frances Sutton, Principal Matron, Hongkong..
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