19th February.
The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company's steamers are unlucky When the Fa ig was fired upon, xs she wns cribed by the Russians as a mistake. Now leaving Pore Arthur, the afar was des another of their vessels, the Hsiping, has had an experience, not 80 disastrous fortun nately but quite as remarkable. Fired at four times without cause or warning, ordered into Dalny over mines newly-laid and uncertain location, and detained there without justification for four days, it is no wonder that Captrin Macfarlane has filed a strong protest with the authorities of the ig Russian port.
By permission of Captain Macfarlane we give what is practically a transcription from his log of an eventual passage.
The Hsiping left Chinwangtio on the loth February just after midnight, bound
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.