In a multitude of stories there is_nlways inaccuracy. So it has come about that, the accounts which have roached Shanghai of the taking—or, more properly, the occupa tion—of the forts at Shanhaikwan have in one ease been strictly correct. A rep! soniativo of the North-China Daily News" has been able to gather briefly and satisfactorily the details of that me teresting episode.
the 29h of September last there was a conference of Foreign Admirals at in, which resulted in the sucamoning of Lieut. and Comdr, Green, commanding H. M.S. Pigmy, by Admiral Seymour. From the Admiral ho received orilers to proceed to. Shanh and there to the forts. Accordingly the Pigmy a about eleven o'clock—that night, carrying as passengers Sir Walter Hillier and Colonel Powell, Ist Ghoorkas, who is on the stof of Field Marshal Count von Wallersee. Sir Walter Hillier's political responsibility and know. ledg> of Chinese pointed him out as indispensable, while Col. Powell went as repre-Senting the military. Shanhaikuan_ was reached about noon on the following day Both of September—and the pring actors, on one side, of the little comedy to came, went on shire. They were: Sir Walter Hillier, Col, Powell, and Gomdr. Geeen. Accompanied by an or-dorly they went ashore and interviewed the Chinese General in c-rumand of the
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