REWARDS FOR SERVICE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 30 November 1912, Page 5

REWARDS FOR SERVICE

ith a thoroughness that haa probably, no parallel in the West/the Chines* Government is rewarding those (or in the case of death their families) who risked their lives in establishing the Republic A Bill submitted to the ■ National Council enters into minute details or the services that are considered worthy of recognition, and the manner m whiCii they are to be rewarded. The services to be recognised are divided into tive classes: Death in the revolutionary cause Before the Revolutiondeath during the Revolution; meritorious services during the Revolution; conspicuous services in the planning and organisation of the Revolution, and the establishment of the Republic; and con-tributions-of money or munitions to the cause. Included in "meritorious services" is the organisation of secret societies, the editing or distribution of re-

;• oiutionary papers or pamphlets, death m active service, and execution for conveying arms or ammunition to,the rebels. Bomb-throwers and assassins, editors and spies, are all eligbile for special recognition, and in the case of death, their widows, heirs, or parents may receive the prescribed award. The serviced rendered by naval and military officers or others who cafised their subordinates to go over to the Revolutionary s'cle, and those who organised or led Republican forces, are calculated with mathematical precision, according to the numbe rof recruits obtained or men commanded, except that half the number of civilian volunteers places the candidates for honors in the same grade as those who recruited or led the full number of regular troops. "Physical and intellectual damages" sustained in thu service of the Republican cause are to be rewarded, the lower grades consisting mainly of those who became ill or mentally affected in consequence of their exertions or anxiety. .Exiles are divided into tAvo classes; those who were exiled in lieu of imprisonment, and those who voluntarily became exiles to further the Revolutionary campaign. Three divisions of decorations are to be destowed upon revolutionaries for meritorious services—the "Sacrificial Urn," the "Ti^or and Leopard," and the "Roused Lion." Those.awarded the highest decoration are to receive pensions of £o to £10 per annum, according to class. To recipients of the Tiger and Leopard decoration lump sum grants of from £20 to £300 are to be made. The Republic is to make itself responsible for providing the descendants of those who rendered meritorious services with free education. Tt will be interesting to see whether' in years to come the Chinese war pension list swells in the same proportion as the American.