New Scheme Endorsed by Shanghai Chamber Endorsing a recent. petition from Chinese merchants in the South Seas, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce has sent a telegram to the Minintrie fof Industry and Communication: urging the opening of a_service to the South Seas by the China Merchants Steam Navigation Ca, order to facilitate the transportation fof Chinese products, The monopoly of the route by foreign steamship concerns greatly hampers China's trade with that part. of the world, especially at the present, when export prices are low, since the enforcement of the "new currency system, the telegram said. Moreover, the opening of a navigation route to the South Seas by Chinese interests for long has been the desire of the Chinese communities there, On the arrival of Brigadier Thackeray, who was accompanied by Capt. T, G, Rennie, Brigade Major, and Lieut. D, W Rayner, of the Lancashire Fusiliers, the regimental band played the general salute, and the troops presented arms. ' Brigadier Thackeray walked straight down the lunes, and a bugle call greeted him as he Teached the Japanese ranks. A fanfare from buglers of the French Colonlat Forces was sounded as he approached the detachment, andi Brigadier Thackeray then walked down the ranks of the—American, detachment, and the Russian volun-\ eer detachment, Among thos who were in group which saw Brigadier 'Thack~ jerry off were Rear-Admiral Kondo, Capt. C, B. Howard-Vyse, Major' W. H, Clarke, the Rev, Vann, chaplain to the forees, Lieut-Col. L. Perretier, Lieut, Boudet, Colonel Charles F. B. Price, It-Col. W. D. Smith, Major Specie, Capt. R.A. Boone, Major A. 8. G. Douglas, Major E, V. Burke-Murphy, Licut.-Col, R. F. H, Massy-Westropp, Lieut. J. NH, Christie, Capt, E, W. Oxonford, Mr, R. C. Aiers, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. A. H. George, and many others.
Brigadier Thackeray left Shanghai fon the 23rd of this month on board the s, Empress of Japan,
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