It will be remembered that the first attempt of the German steamer Suibsiang t" navigate the Yangtz" Gorges ended in the total wreck of the ill-fured ver, captain and several of the native crew being unfortunately drowned, But for the splendid service rendered by four of the Yangtze life-saving boats—or Red Boats as they are usually called from the eulour they are painted—there is 10 doubt, that the wreck would have been attended by an appalling less of Jife, as there were with the ship's officers about thirty foreigners on board, most of them missionaries. in vative dress, is which calculated to minimise the chances of a swimmer. These four boats, Nos. 17, 26, 28, and 31, shot out from the shore the moment the accident happened, and in a few minutes succeeded Ianding all the passengers and oticers, inone of whom were in the water very long and were doubtless kept nfluat by the life-belts provided by the ship, which were served out to everyone shortly after Leaving Tehang. Captain Broitag alone, in an unlucky fit of careless generosity having given up his belt te someone else, lost his lite in jxerurn for un act of heroic unselfishness, j It is needless to eay that the landing of all who were saved entailed some very hard work and good judgment on the part of the four red-boats, and they did it, as these boats always do, right manfully and well. Ata time like the present, when our minds are full of bitterness against the Chinese for their barbarity in other places, it is well that the characteristic British love of fair play should lead us to give every credit to native organisation 60 honesty managed and so splendidly served as the Yangize Life Savi g Service. This was started jin 1865 by the Viceroy Li Han-chang {with the small number of 6 boats. In 1874 Viceroy Ting Pao.chén, when Governor of Shantung, subserited Tls. 10,000, to which Szechuan added Tls. 6,000 and Hupeh Tls. 4,00, when the number of boats was increased to 21. In 1882 Admiral
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