Officer Taken to Hospital As Vessel Berths H.M.S. Suffolk, 10,000 tons British cruiser, arrived in Shanghai yesterday morning from Weihaiwei, having left the northern port on December 17 in order to remove Surgeon Lieut. Cdr. A. R. Ewart, who had contracted smallpox, to the Municipal Isolation Hospital in Brenan Road.
As soon as the vessel berthed at the British naval buoys, a launch was sent to the shore with It. Cdr. Edwart on board and he was removed to the hospital by ambulance. As the officer is now in the Isolation Hospital the ship will not be quarantined and it is expected that she will leave port in early January Upon her arrival at Weihaiwei on December 15 the Suffolk was immediately quarantined because of two cases of smallpox on board, the quarantine regulations being lifted after the removal of the men to the Naval Hospital. Surgeon Lieut. Cdr. Ewart, who tended the men before their despatch to hospital, contracted the disease a" few days later and the ship immediately left for Shanghai.
Following the arrival of the Suffolk the escort vessel Sandwich left the naval buoys for the Lower Yangtze where she will meet the convoy of British and American gunboats from Hankow, res Another new arrival today will be H.M.S. Scorpion, which is to replace Navigation of the Pearl River Reuters representative at yesterday's press conference questioned the Japanese spokesmen whether they could affirm the report published in yesterday's issue, quoting the Japanese Consul-General in Canton saying that the Pearl River would not be opened to foreign shipping until the Yangtze issue had been settled.
Tt was stated that they, having no knowledge of the statement, preferred to make no comment. The correspondent then pointed out that six weeks ago the Japanese Consul-General in Canton had told him that he might print a statement that the Pearl River would be opened to navigation at the end of this period: Spokesmen declined to comment. Queried regarding a Hongkong report that today a Japanese shipping company would institute a Service between Macao and Canton, the spokesmen denied any knowledge of the proposal H.M.S. Bee on the Yangtze Flotilla. The new ship, which has just finished trial at Hongkong, will carry the flag of Rear-Admiral Holt, R dmiral of the Yangtze Flotilla.
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