MILITARY DECORATIONS.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1688, 1 June 1874, Page 2

MILITARY DECORATIONS.

- -(To the Editor of the EvKHnrcrSuß.) Siß,7-S<have much pleasure in, placing at your disposal the enclosed description of the peculiar gold medal with the blue centre for the information of " Curiosity " It is taken from an Illustrated London News published a short time prior to the issue of said medals. ,-,-■■?- ---* I am, &c, Sergeant T.S.V. " The accompanying illustration shows the badge of the Imperial Order of the Dragon, lately established by an Imperial edict of the Pekin. Government. Itis a military decoration, ranged in three cr?JJ& *? d ifc !■• to ba P^'ented, through ,the Minuter, to such, European officers as render military or naval service to the Chinese Government. The ribbon is yellow, with light green edges (the Court colours).^. The first class is distinguished •by a"red stone, and the second by a blue stone, of considerable value, in the cento: -the order itself being of pure Chir"U cold. The third class is forger in sixj. But is of silver, with a plain ,wW stone. It may be remarked that thy Chinese are not herein acting precisely as the.Turks d ud>,?rh^ n J tb*y establisfiedWOrder of the Medjidie; seeing that Chinese medals for military serricehad been in use louff before any idea of making an order expressly for Wpjawswas thought of. ?° P n? .V^ 0 seen "Braves" can have failed to remark the large silver badges that many of them wear on the breast, .bearing. the> wo*d "Valour," and which answer toour Victoria Cross. The Fe^r*^ tt# re(i? rds .tho •PPPintments to "The Dragon" m just the same way, *"-°? r i°™ Gaaette would do. ' [We may. m«ntion<that Mr Olmr was a '