After the usual summer stay at Weihaiwei, BACS, Kent, flagship of the British China Fleet with Admiral 'Sir Charles' Little, Commander-in-Chief, on board, "has arrived Shanghai for a brief sojourn before leaving on the ordinary routine programme. Shanghai is always ready to five unusual welcome to Sir Charles owing to his local associations and as the British Naval Buoys have not been occupied by so distinguished a visitor the pleasure is more readily appreciated... It was originally announced that the Kent would be in Shanghai until October 14 but owing toa change in naval movements the stay hag been extended a week which means that Shanghai will, at the same time, also have the opportunity of seeing HMS. Hermes, the aircraft carrier, which will be at Holl's Whart until the naval buoys are vacated, Tt is rare that two large vessels are port together and there exists some sort of belief that the Admiral is always in port for the Faces, but on this occasion the pleasure will not be his or Shanghai's, although there has been an overlapping of arrivals. Incidentally, WINS. Kent Is next on the lst for recommissioning at Home, and a notable change will be seen in the near future when H.MS, Cumberland, in a new guise which gives her an aeroplane hangar and half a deck cut away to provide compensation, arrives on the station from Home,
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