The departure on Sunday of the! str. Shutung and Shutung Flat for, Chungking marks another epoch in the expansion of British trade in the Upper Yangtze. The Shu-} tung with her barge are in their way the most famous of the Upper ngtze steamers now in commission. This little tug was built especially for the work by Messrs.
1, Thorneyeroft in 1909 for a dicate of Chungking and Chengtu merchants—and __offi-!
zis known as the Szechuan Steam Navigation Company, and she was the first really successful vessel on the Uppe Yangtze. Commanded by Captain} Plant this little craft towing her} Flat alongside, with as many passengers as could be packed into her, generally over 300, established a more or less regular'steamship communication between Ichang and Chungking for eight or nine months of the year.
She is now off on a journey to take the flag to a part of the Yangtze where it has never before been seen. She is to trade between Suifu—250 miles from Chungking—and Chungking, and it is hoped that the enterprise shown by Messrs. Mackenzie & Ca.. Ld., owners of the Shutung, will meet with success.
Baron Fujimura left for Peking on Saturday. During his stay in here he was "constantly entertained by many old friends who were glad to see him back in Shanghai. A very pleasant luncheon was given' at the Palace Hotel on October 28 in Baron Fuyimura's honour, by Mr. Yamasaki, 'LIH. I. J. M. Consul-General, when Sir Everard Fraser, x.catc., li the uiembers of the Council, Mr. E. C. Pearce, Mr. G. H. Stitt, Mr.
J. Scott and the leading members of the Japanese community were present.
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