The Directors of the Peking Granaries report that on the 16th inst. fire broke out, in the Haiyiin granary and destroyed an pat division eof before the flames could be extinguished. They go on to say that the keepers in charge have been sent to the Board for examination and strong walls was really as impregnable as a they request that they themselves be fortress. Here they were closely invested punished for their carelessness. Strict by the Imperialist forces who encountered investigation nrust_be made as to how the a terrible fire in trying to carry the place, fire originated and those concerned duly A bloody combat, with shot raining like punished. hail, was kept up for fully four hours,
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