Bluejackets' Appreciation of Leaving Shanghai after two years as RAY, Rear-Admiral F.G.G. Chilton, accompanied by Mrs, Chilton and members of his staff, went on board the s. Cathay, of the P. & O. Line on Tuesday, Oct. 29, bound for London and new duties, He was bid Boodbye at the Customs. jetty by Aumerous friends, amicers of the Navy stationed here, and by Sir Frederick Leith Ross, economic adviser 1 the British Government, Lady Ross also was present, There was enthusiasm in plenty at the Jetty, and Master Reggie Chilton, mounted on the tender's upper deck railings, and only saved from a ducking by @ firm hold on the back 3f his Jumper, was good for an easy ten minutes cheering and waving atter everyone else had finished, but there was more to come down-river. AS many men from the river gunboats"ad could get away from duties reinforced the ship's company of H.M.S. Bee, Admiral Chilton's Tate flagship, and their full-throated cheering, drowned at times by the explosion of a wealth, of crackers, was a good indication of what they thought of service tinder the ex-RAY. The Admiral waved his hat in reply. There was a last farewell gathering on the Cathay, Rear-Admiral Crabbe, with his. staff and several other amicers, calling for a final handshake,
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