The trip up the Coast was mainly characterized by bad weather and rain. Two hours sailing south of Ningpo, a large cruiser was sighted on {he horizon and the Andre Lebon, after continuing on her course for a time, Veered round suddenly and drew quite close to the strange vessel—which turned out to be H.MS. Suffolk. Flag signals were interchanged, after which both ships returned to their courses, The Andre Lebon dropped anchor in the mouth of the Yangtze at 5.27 o'clock yesterday morning. On the horizon could be seen a lightship, the pilot boat and a Japanese cruiser. At about 9 o'clock, she started up the river after picking up the pilot. The ship steered a very wavy course up the river, the object of this apparently being to avoid overtaking a heavily-laden Japanese naval transport which was steaming slowly ahead.
The passenger liner dropped an-char at about 10 o'clock in the "safe anchorage" ana the returning Shanghailanders crowded the decks to listen to the dull booming in the distance, and to count the Japanese aeroplanes, a dozen being frequently seen in the air at a time. Lunch was taken on board, and passengers and their hand-baggage were then transferred to the cruiser via the -tender Alexandra,
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