Shang! people, safe in their beds at night, free from danger by marauding, Chekiang soldiers. Wietors, who might possibly get with-inthe' confines of the Settlement, really. have no conception of what their defenders ave doing to protect them. A snail. reference to the Rood work of the defence corps may bbe read in. the. press occasionally and the casual reader passes without farther thought, but not with the. men themsclves—they folly realize night and day the daties thrust upon them and they cheerfully carry out orders, without the aughest hesitation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.