Carrying one of the world's most unique and priceless cargoes—the Peiping Palace treasures—the British cruiser, HMS. Suffolk, left Shanghai at' daybreak on Friday morning on her homeward voyage to England.
The Peiping Palace treasures, which have been lent by the Chinese Government, are for the Chinese art expostlion to be held et Burlington House in London this autumn.
Throughout Thursday the treasures consisting of more than 1,000 articles of Chinese ancient art, were moved from the vaults of the old Bank of China building, at the corner of The Bund and Jinkee Road, where a pre-Uminary exhibition was open to the Shanghai public during April, to the Ching Merchants Lower Wharf, alongside which lay the Brit'sh cruiser.
A stoup of oficiais and officers on boat rd HAMS. Sulfotk. Me. W. J. Hawkings manager of Messrs. G..E
Marden & Ca, who supervised transport arrangements from vaults of the old 'Bank' of China bul will be recalled that preparations Yor the exhibition in Shanghai were carried "out by" a" group' of specialists who arrived from England, They. were Sir Percival David, Prot.
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