3rd November.
Tr is to be hoped that no attempt is to be made to make capital out of the reported outrage on a German wharfinger at Kichou. Kichou is a village on the worth bank of the Yangize between Kiukiang and Hankow, some 15 miles below Cock's There are no wharves or fingers there, and steamers only call occasionally if lights are shown, when a sampan comes off with "pa The so-called wharfinger I Chinese, and the whole al evidently nothing but a row between competing steamer touts, of which the tout for the German steamers got the worst. It is unfortunate that such an exaggerated report should be promulgated just at the present conjuncture.
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