Loot! Loot! Loot! is the order to-day—and an exceptionally rich optunity. Tientsin native city, with its population of more than a million, is being steadily despoiled. 'The trea-sunes and yamens, with their large quantities of silver ingots, have been broken open, officers. and' men struggling with civilians for possession of the treasure. It needed puta few hours for the taking of thousands of pounds' worth of silver, in addition to which many private dwellings were shorn of their valuables. The chief difficulty is the carrying away of the stuff. This looting started on the fourteenth, and continued to-day, when the authorities soldiers, everything thet had been confiscated, for the benefit of the
brought into the Settlements by civiliang.
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