ly to be hoped that Captain Huan Wallace's statement in the House of Commons will put heart into the shipping magnates who are deporivinyg Woosung and Shanghai of the pleasure fund advantage of beholding their vessels Mr. Adrian Moreing has once more performed public service by his vixUant question on the Subject. To many people here the diMidence: which permits coastal steamers, French, Tatian, Netherlands and some American liners to mono: police the priviteye of keeping the stream. of Shanghai's commerce running Is inexplicable, Tt cannot be that British shipowners have ssu denly developed an inordinate affection for the doctrine of "safety first." Neither the Empire self nor the Mercantile Marine was butt wp on that principle,
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