The British gunners have done splendid work. They have had the additional difficulty in the fact that the guns had to be brought from ships fourteen miles outside Taku, and thence for twenty-five miles upstream to Tientsin. The exceptional transport difficulties, however, are steadily being overcome.
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On Sunday a mised naval squadron, consisting of the British Aurora, the German Hansa, the French Surprise, one Russian, and one, Japanese, left Taku to demonstrate in the neighbourhood of Shanhaikuan,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.