Admiral Sir Charles Little, Commander-in-Chief of the British China Fleet, (centre), and the captain and officers of H.M.S. Cumberland, the flagship, photographed on the quarter deck of the warship. The Cumberland came to Shanghai on October 19, for the first time since hostilities began, and will remain here indefinitely. Sh Spring after being refitted at home, and during the summer took part in exercises off Weihaiwei. At the be; inning of the present hostilities, s e arrived in China w: for several days, after which she left for a cruise to northern ports, returned to Woosung, and then left for Hongkong to pick up reliefs. he was anchored off
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