Mr. E. Jenner Hogg then proposed: That this meeting pledges itself to do its utmost to make the Teague a success." He observed that after the needs of the time had been served, the future of the league would no doubt be based on a carefully thought out plan. It would not be a sleepy concern, but would make its existence felt. Begun in peril, it must be widely developed lest peril overtake us again.
Mr. E. F. Mackay seoondad, and in passing referred to the appreciation which shipping people in Shanghai were about to accord to the British Navy by virtue of aotual experience of the safety and benefit its work had conferred. There had been no stoppage of shipping to any appreciable extent, and now the vast import and export trade of China was being carried almost entirely in British bottoms.
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