Valuable Ca-operation in Keeping British Flag Flying Hongkong, July 25.
At the annual meeting of the! Indo-China Steam Navigation €o., to-day, the chairman expressed the Compang's deep debt of gratitude] to His Majesty's Navy for the valuable ce-operation and assistance it had given in keeping the flag flying on the Yangtze during the recent critical times. He remarked that, without such aid, particularly) in the way of convoying merchant vessels, a complete withdrawal of all British vessels would, in all probability, have had to be effected.
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