their long voyage to the Homeland, the members of Shang: hai's fi British volunteer oontingent should carry with them a lasting impression of the cheery and encouraging scene of their departure. Happily, many such scenes have been, and are still to be witnessed throughout the Empire, Each will lend its individual touch of colour to the future historian's picture of Britons abroad rallying to the standard of the old country. It would be easy to exaggerate the sentimental interest of the event, and quite as easy to overlook ite deep significance, but it
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