London, June 6.
Captain Yardley was unstinted in his praise of the manner in. which hhis passengers, many of them bound for Japan, Shanghai and Hongkon conducted' themselves in the criti hours immediately following di covery of the blaze Ofcers of the Honolulu Fire Brigade said that the crew of.the President Lincoln had dealt with the emergency most ficiently.
All passengers were singing the praises of Captain Yardley and his crew when the President Lincoln made port this morning. Most of them insisted that they were not for moment alarmed by the preparations to abandon ship and the' precaution ary S.OS—United Press, Gen. Yang Chieh, chief of the Nanking Military School, lett for Epsom to-day and will proceed to Berlin to-morrow. He had a long conversation with Lord Hailsham, Secretary of State for War. yesterday.
Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Minister in London, gave a luncheon for the Chinese Commission to-day. Among the guests were Sir Herbert Creedy, permanent Under-Secretary of State for War, and the Air Vice-Marshal, Sir Edgar Ludlow Hewitt—Reuter.
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