The French transport Vinhlong is badly ashore at Pulo Sambo.
BRITISH ACTION AT TIENTSIN, 'A correspondent writes from Tientsin on the 9th instant as follows We Britishers are actually asserting ourselves at last. The Russian flags were removed back by our men yesterday from all the railway property, and placed outside the limits of all the ground that the Imperial Chinese Railways had secured for siding, etc., before the outbreak of hostile ties. The Russians at once protested. We sent over troops. They protested more. We sent over more still; and this morning a lot of the Madras Pioneers have gone over to maintain the position, "Action" seems to have replaced "talk," and unless I am tremendously wrong, the Russians will back down.
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