Damage to the extent of some Tls. 5,000 was done at Woosung recently one of the Conservancy pontoons being destroyed. The circamstances of the affair are that one night " party of sailors who had shore leave seem to have spent their time on a drinking bent, and coming down to the pontoon threatened the Chinese watchman with violence, if one did not actually draw a naked sword upon him. The Chinese who witnessed the affair state that the men engaged in it were Japanese sailors, but it is understood that thie la denied by those in authority on the ship of that nationality at Woosang.
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