Our fortifications appear to possess a large amount of fascination for foreign naval men. The other day three Russian naval officers were fined for being too curious about the Hungham batteries, and on Sunday night, two German jacks belonging to the Priu: Heinrich were found trespassing near the field works of the Kowloon Fort Battery. At the Police Court on the 2ad inst,, they pleaded inability to read English" and' that therefore the notices were unintelligible to them. They were fined $8 each. The Russian officers were mulcted in $50, but they did not plead inability to understand the notices.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.