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Many Vessels Undergoing Repairs The Kiangnan Dock snd Eaginer-Works Is bustling these days, with numerous ships calling atthe Dock for overhauls and. repairs, several ships bein completed and "made Feady to enter the river service and 5 usual, © large number of Chinese Warships are. Iping_alongide, Pri Sipal among Wiese later is the Ping the new 'Chinese era rom a distance the Ping Hal looks idea. comploted warship. itis only lose to that can be seen that thers sti' a great dear of work to be done on her. Dut most of this work yet to be done is inthe Interior of the ship" ier superteuctre i come plete even to the delal of install hee tifesboats nda cuter for het commander, The only things lacking her decks are her guns "with all her supersrueture tu place the Ping Hal ie gradually begtoning settle down in the water. When interior of the ship fe" Anished fand her guns are mounted: she wil Be sotlea'to her natural depth"
"At present she is having Rer ving quarters, engine rooms, trid. vaclout ther compartments" consrucied Were on these is going on apace and she should be ready to put to se for her tells tae this summer, Se was Tntnched last September 25'in'a aula ceremony attended by ofteals Chivcss Navy an well a8 by. Fepre:
Sentsives of the other naval walls Htalioned in Shanghai, "The new drydock st Kiangnan, the largest In China, fe comfortably. aes commedatiog ships that come' in for Feira, 'On duly' there was, only tone ship in the dock, the China Merchants' Kung Ping,' 1,742 tons, While a fair sized ship in length she @id not half il the big dock, and another of the same length could easily have been taken in, The Kung Ping is in for repairs to her bow plates, rudder, and {wo propellers.
Other ships'in the other two docks were the Hwah Shun and the Hwah Peng, having work done on their wems, Lying off the dock was the Haen, which makes the run from here to Wenchow, Just down from the Kiangnan Dock. were the Ming Pen and the Ming Yuan, both of the Ming Sung Industrial Ca." They were iauine ched recently and are being made ready for the river service, 'Thelt cabins are being constructed now, and already the decks and wood work are being painted and varnished, The ships are still a bright red colour externally, but it is expected that they will soon' be painted a dull maple, /They should be ready to go on their trials and eventually up. the river by this autumn, "Another ship of the same line is already being painted and having her deck space enlarged.
Much lumber is being unloaded up the river these days, affording fine log rafts for naked Chinese children to go out to deeper water to swim, One ship that is supplying much of the lumber is the Greek steamer Eugenia Chandris. which arrived here a week ago last Wednesday. She has almost. finished unloading and should soon be leaving Shanghai. She comes from Khios.
Dr. Schwarzenburg, who was involved in " motor accident in Great Western Road on July 6, was fortunately not seriously Injured trid he escaped with a severe shaking when he was thrown against the wind-screen. "He was able to attend practice os usual next day,
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