They set cut, and for two days eta the joy of receiving two letters, thing "happened, and. then thy
one from Mr, Keele in Peking, ang one from Mr. Sowerby, telliue of the existence of a Shenai Relief Ex. edition. Mr. Keete hag heard of the wasanere at Sianfu, and decided at all costs to. help the. remaining jones. He went to Sir John Jordan, and finally with the assistance Mr. Sowerby, who had organized a party ready to. go into. Mongolia, who offered everything. he ha Including his services, for the Shan si expedition, got together. a strong! company of nine. 'Mr. Horst-Smith said that' often glancing over. the congregation on a Sunday mornin: he hus seen one or another of thai company in the Union Church inch ing Ate. P. D. Bans, lately Reuter'e representative in. Shanghai. From the time they left one railway and Joined another it took 45 days, all this time travelling over eountey Where there was '0. government, when bandits had supreme control, He could not speak too highly of this gallant tile band, who went bravely forward regardless of grave personal risk, and much bodily hard-Ship. At one time in the direct Tine of @ retreating army, and 'A fire which started some time before six o'clock on Saturday night, but which, because of its nature was not discovered until some, considerable time later, broke out on board the str. Eastmore which was lying: at MeKenzic's Wharf, Pootuny. The fire was spectacular in that the Municipal fire fleat, the Customs fire float, and naval detachments turned cout to assist the ship's crew who had begun a noble but futile effort to. extinguish the flames. Among the ships represented were the U. 8. S. Huron, H. M. S. Vindietive, the Jules Michelet, and the Sebastian Caboto (Portugues The flames which first became visible about six ¥elock lighted up the river and the dense clouds o: smoke hung in a pall over everything, In order to facilitate the work. of the firemen the various Linen-of-war centred their searchlights on the burning" vessel, The first official notification of the fire came from the U. S. Huron. through a telephone call to the Central Fire Brigade, beating the Hongkew watch tower by a fraction of a minute. Chief Officer Dyson ordered out the crew with the fire float while Hongkew A, B and © sections attended on the other float. It was but a short time before the powerful streams from these vessels were directed into the vessel's No, 2 hold where the whole trouble was. Tt was n difficult fire to handle and the blaze carried on till nine otslock.
The fire had broken out in a forward hatch in which a consignment of sugar was separated by a wooden partition from the bunker coal. The fire had evidently started' by spontaneous combustion in the coal and had burned through the partition and was attacking the sugar when the brigade arrived, "A certain amount of sugar was damaged by water but apart from that and the damage to the partition, no. very rear Rose was incurred, Capt. Rush, arrived in Shanghai on str, Eastmore, commanded Friday and a considerable amount of the sugar had been unloaded before the fire broke out, Rel odel sees
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