The highest commendation is given to the work done by Lieut. Commander Keyes of the Fame and his colleague on the Whiting. They have been indefatigable, and their capture of the four Chinese torpedo-boats on the night when the Taku Forts were taken was a very brilliant piece of work. Trey were under fire from the forts all the time, and each of them towed a whaleboat with twelve men in it. Ther ran alongside the Chinese boats and boarded them in the approved style, driving the Chinese over the side, and then] of refugees from the North, including towed them away.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.