From 2 Correspondent, Hongkong, Oct. 25.
From a source which is usually well-informed, and which is seldom given to speaking without good reason, comes a most astonishing statement. Briefly, it is that mines have been strewn about the steamer route to the north, as far as Swatow, and that there is considerable dan. ger to shipping. One may give the story exactly as one got it, with the remark that, if it is not correct in every particular, there appears to be no reason for doubting that there is more than a little in it.
"T can tell you not only that mines have been thrown about," said my informant, "but also how many there are. There are just one hundred and ten, and they came from Swatow. That is to say they came from that port in the last instance; where they came from in the first is quite another story. You must guess at that."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.