Amid scenes of the wildest enthusieem, the eleven men who have volunteered for service left Shanghai last Friday. Th" French bund was lined with people, in fact such a crowd has not been seen in Shanghai for a long time. The departure of the tender Whangpoo, for the M. M. 8. Polynesien, was timed for three o'clock, but long before that hour crowds assembled on the jetty, many carrying flags, of British and French nationalities.
'The men who have so gallantly answered their country's cal' are very well known locally, and nearly all are prominent athletes, They can both ride and shoot, and it is their intention to join up with some
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