to Tsingtao and blue ribbons, hung a bottle of wine to which were attached China's national fig, red with a blue canton bearing the white star, and the ting of the Kuomintang, blue with the gunboat the: White star.
At the mast of the flew Ensign.
workmen were busily at work knocking away chock: is learned that at the end of the present month there will be an important change made in the personnel of the foreign staff of Shanghai. the Chinese Maritime Customs in
Mr. W. R. Myers, the present] Commissioner, is to be transferred to Tsingtao, while Mr. Lancelot H. Lawford, the present Commissioner at Tsingtao, will replace him here.
'The service of Mr. Myers in the Customs dates from' 1904. After being educated at Aberdeen, came out to China, and has since seen service in ports. These inelade Foochow, Swatow, Meng(sze, Wahu. He promoted Commissioner. Mr. W. Maze, now Inspector-General, was then Commissioner, and Mr. Myers' rank was known as that of Commissioner (additional). When Mr. Maze assumed the Inspectorate and when they had finished the Mall ready" sign was put up. Then, with the words "I christen thee Falcon" Mrs, J. F. Brenan well and truly broke the "bottle of wine across the bow of the ship, and immediately after it started dst the "cheers of the gathering, Sliding without a hitch down the slipway, the ship reached the Whangpoo with hardly a splash and floated out on to the stream, to be eight and made fast by jumper of tugs waiting in Addressing the assembly after the launching Mfr. Brenan stated thay it was a unique occasion, as was the first time that a ship of His Majesty's had been launched from a Chinese Naval Dockyard, and showed another instance of the con jai relations between the British and Chinese Navies. For some time past Chinese Naval cadets had been undergoing General, Mr. Myers took charge of i with, General, jok charge of jing with the Royal Navy in recently, at the rethe Customs Office which he has conducted with, the utmost efficiency quest of the Chinese Government a ever since." His many friends, both
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