After anchoring in 9 fog, H.MS. Cumberland, flagship of-the British China Fleet, which left Shanghat on May 14, ran aground at 623 am, on May 15 on. the north bank ofthe Yangtze in Kiang Yin Reach, three miles below Bate Point, She was refloated at high water at 845 om.
The scene of the grounding roughly 80. miles from Shanghai below Chinkiang, Cumberland is on' her way, to Nan king and Hankow with Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little, the Commander-in-[Chief on board. H.MS. Suffolk has replaced Cumberland at the British naval buoys in Shanghai, Accompanying the flagship on her Yangtze trip 1s H.M.S, Falmouth,
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