Oct. 8.
In response to a telegram from Sir Everard Fraser the War Office has definitely accepted the offer of a contingent of volunteers from Shanghai for service with the Allied armies. The scheme has undergone various changes since it was first mooted. With these we need not be farther concerned. The enterprise is now in the hands of the China Association, cooperating with His Majesty's Consul-General; and already above one hundred serviceable men are available from Shanghai alone. If we add in the applications which have come from the outports, Japan and elsewhere, that number is far exceeded. But it has been found necessary to leave these other centres to some extent to look after their own men, under the guidance of their respective British Consuls: for the moment are concerned only with the men from Shanghai. It is not strictly correct to speak of " Shanghai contingent. It stands to reason that the men who go must be prepared to be drafted anywhere
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