DECORATIONS EARNED
BY AMERICAN OFFICERS IN PHILIPPINES ORGANISERS OF NATIONAL DEFENCE. MACARTHUR’S COMMENDATION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, February 23. A United States War Department communique states that on the recommendation of General MacArthur, President Quezon has awarded the Distinguished Service Star, the highest mili-
tary decoration in the Commonwealth, to Major General R. K. Sutherland, Chief-of-Staff, and Brigadier R. JMarshall, Deputy Chief-of-Staff. These two, wfyo are occupying key posts in the epic defence of Batan, served as members of the American Military Mission which devised the original plans and methods for the defence of the Philippines. According to the citations: “This success earned for the Philippine. Commonwealth the, priceless right to be recognised on its own merits as an equal in the brotherhood of arms by the nations of the world.’ General MacArthur, when presenting the medals, said: “These are two of the finest officers who ever served under my command —cool, resourceful, courageous, determined and resolute. They are deserving of the immediate award of these well-earned decorations.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1942, Page 3
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