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THE CHINA MAH, FEBRUARY 1, 1937.

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THREE NEW PEERAGES Queen Mother To Head Royal Victorian Order

ROYAL NAMES PROMINENT IN HONOURS LIST

FIGURING PROMINENTLY IN THE NEW YEAR'S HON-

OURS L

LIST, POSTPONED. FROM JANUARY 1 AS A CONSE- QUENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS, AND NOW PÙB- LISHED AFTER REVISION, IS THE QUEEN MOTHER.

Her Majesty has been elevated to Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, and has also been appointed Grand Master of the Order.

The King's brothers, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent, have also been awarded honours. The Duke of Gloucester is simultaneously appointed personal Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty and promoted to the rank of Air Vice-Marshal The Duke of Kent has also been made personal A.D.C. to the King, as have Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Duke of Connaught, Prince Arthur of Connaught, the Farl of Athlone and the Earl of Harewood.

PRIVY COUNCILLORS

Two new members of the Privy Council are announced in the per- sons of

Lord Hutchison, Chairman of the Liberal National Organisation, and Mr. R. M. Menzies, the Australian Attorney-General-

Baron Greenwood, a former Mem ber of Parliament and now Trea- surer of the Conservative Party, has been raised to a Viscountcy.

NEW PEERS

Three new created:

-Bar

have been

Major Sir George Hennessy, Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party;

Major Alexander Hardinge, the King's private secretary (Knight! Commander of the Bath);

Mr. John Charles Ledingham, director of the Lister Institute; -

Mr. Ernest Le Fleming, Chair- man of the Council of the British Medical Association;

-Mr. Arthur Streeton, for services to Australian art, and

Mr. Henry Thomas Tizard, Bec tor of the Imperial College of Science and Technology (Knight Commander of the Bath).

ORDER OF MERIT

Other awards include:-

Queen Mary who is made Dame Grand Cross and appointed Grand Master of the Royal Victorian Order in the New Year Honours List.

SHENSI WANTS SILVER

Order of Merit: Mr. H. ALBULLET'S

Fisher, Warden of New College, Ox- ford.

Sir Harry McGowan, Chairman Air Force Cross: Squadron-Lead- of Imperial Chemical Industries, and er F. R. D. Swain, who established Sir Arthur Michael Samuel, a world height record for Britain Unionist Member of Parliament. in September.

SIX BARONETS

Six new baronets have been created, including

Sir Derwent Hall Caine, the pub lisher and son of the famous nove list,

Sir William Clare Lees, Chair- man and Manager of several large concerns, and

Mr. Percy Malcolm Stewart, Com- missioner for the Special Areas in England and Wales and Chairman of several cement companies.

SIR MILES LAMPSON

Sir Miles Lampson, British High Commissioner in Egypt and former- ly Ambassador to China, has been awarded the Grand Cross of St.

Michael and St. George.

Another recipient of the order is Mr. Herbert Malkin, leg adviser to the Foreign Office.

TWENTY-NINE KNIGHTS Twenty-nine knighthoods are an- nounced. They include:

Mr. Adrian Boult M sical Direc tor of the B

MIANT

CHANG'S TROOPS GIVING TROUBLE

Dame Commander of the Empire:

Nanking, To-day. Lady Juliet Williams, honorary

Menace of war has again re- treasurer of Queen Charlotte's vealed itself critically in Shensi Fund, and Mrs. Mary Gillmore, for The age-old question of finance contributions to Australian litera- has freshly crept into the imbroglio between the Nanking Government ture.

Commander of St. Michael and and the rebel forces commanded by St. George: Mr. C. M. G. Desmond General Yang Hu-cheng, "Pacifica- Morton, Director of the Department tion Commissioner" of the pro- of Overseas Trade Reuter..

vince.

The demand for funds, for li- quidation expenses," has been made by General Yang's troops and also. by the forces formerly under the control of Chang Hsueh-liang.

FIGHTING BREAKS OUT

In addition "Leftist tendencies have become noticeable in the 105th

Moscow Appeals For Pardon Refused

Moscow, To-day. Appeals for pardon made by the thirteen accused condemned

death in the mass treason trial just concluded, have been rejected by the Presidum the Central Executive Council.

The men will be shot some- time before midnight to-night.

Reuter

HOLD-UP GANG GET $2,500

Story Recounted In Court To-day

Wa Sui was sentenced to five ths imprisonment this morning

Division, which has refused to for aiding and abetting in the theft withdraw to the designated posi-of-$2,500 on October. It from an tant of the Foo Long Con-

tions.

Telephone and telegraph munications---between-

and Sianft have been cut

the rebels, who ha

offensive against the Governm

roops. Reuter

NAVAL MAN WEDS