The Boxer menace is hourly approaching nearer to Shanghai settlements are full of suspiciters, and in the native quarters there ix 2 continually increasing number of armed Chinese who are arriving from the north, Most of these are believed to be Boxers. and the Chinese officials do not attempt to deny that the new-comers are armed.
The troops in the Woosung forts are bein reinforced daily, and a number of new gans have been placed in positi The Consuls to-day presented a united protest against these offensive preparations.
The Viceroy Liu Kun-yi replied that he had ordered that the work of strengthening the forts should cease immediately, but the local commander still persisted in his operations and refused to heed the Viceroy's remonstrance 'THY Chinese are enlisting hundreds of coolies for duty at the Arsenal and at the Woosung forts.
'These' positions completely command capable of blowing the foreign settlements to uble of blowing the foreign settlements to pieces in twelve hours.
'T> Messrs. Browett & Ellis Plaintiff's solicitors.
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