The third batch of British volunteers left for home on October 30 by the N.¥.K.8. Atsuta Maru, and were corded a most hearty farewell. The great majority of the men were from the outports, but there were several from Shanghai. The men, to the number of thirty, joined the vessel early in the morning, and while the crowd of people who saw them off was not nearly so large as that which gathered on the previous occasion, the enthusiasm was quite as high. Nearly four hundred people assembled on the foreshore, and the men left amid hat and handkerchief waving and with cheers and national airs ringing in their ears. Member of the Deluge company of the ire Brigade turned out to do honour to Messrs, Hayward and Ost, two of their'number, The crowd sang with considerable enthusiasm the soldiers' song " It's a long way to Tipperary," "Rule Britannia" and the National Anthem. As the tender Alexandra moved away from the jetty loud cheers were given for " Shanghai's second contingent."?
The approaches to the jetty were closed as on the former occasion, but in view of the comparative smallness of the crowd the gates were later thrown open, and the hand-shakings took place on the pontoon.
The names of the contingent, with the men's qualifications, are:—Burdett, C.F., (Newchwang) 7 years, Middlesex Regiment.
Boniface, Mark, (Tientsin) Tientsin British Volunteer Corps, 8.V.0., 2 years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.