City of Rams that the Viceroy has received It is rumoured among qobemonches in the
intelligence to the effect that a rebellion will soon break out, in Kuangtung, and is extremely alarmed in consegeunce. The story runs that the revolutionists are to arrive in warships, and that as a measure of precaution torpedoes are to be placed in the river—near Bocca Tigris. This is all mere idle gossip, I believe but there is an unquiet feeling in Canton.
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