Reuter sends us the following further list of donations to the St. Paul's Preservation Fund, imomory of A J.
(Note:—Donations. should. be sent to is undoubtedly associated with this Fee award vi. *lour Far Eastern naval forces. The!
The following additional eubseriptions have been received at Reuter's China Squadron is to receive the) Vindictive, a sister-ship to the) Hawkins, and an altogether more] {formidable ship than the cruiser of] half her size which she'will replace. Te has been announced that when:
Th following donations were Jeeived by Reuter's office, Tientsi The following were received /Redter's office, Hankow:—
HE. A. Allan the Effingham is completed at Portsmouth next summer she will proceed [to the East Indies to become flagship} on that station, and it is also known that the fast 7,500-ton crui Emerald and Enterprise will join the East' Indies Squadron.
Since the Raleigh was lost to the North America Squadron no attempt has been made to replace her by ans-[thing bigger than the light cruiser [type which composed the rest of this command. One thing may be regarded as tolerably certain—what-fever may be decided as to the disposition of the ships now building, or completing, they will not be retion of Feng Vu-hsiang sad the mis-lerable collapse of Wu Pei-fu's ill fated campaign have apparent for the moment at least, confines leven the militarists of the hopeless-Mees of unifying China by force, and thave opened the way for attempting to find a solution by seiner methods. There i still a long and dificult read to travel before such an end is attained, butt is a distinct gain to have crested an atmosphere [favourable to peace, and the greatest service all her foreign friends can render to China at present is to
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