Except for Likin Tax on Consignments by Rail: The "Double Tenth"
Tsingtéo, Oct. 14.
Admiral Wen Show-teh left, here for the front on Sunday on board gunboat, the Shoe-ho, " the destination, it is learned, being: Chinwangtao. Two. more gunboats remain here of the Admiral's squad-it is said: they are. also ig to leave for a northern port. The American destroyer No. 243, which has been in port for the past month, still remains here.
Although there is an undoubted military atmosphere here, especially since the arrival of the special defence garrison from other stations Shantung, comprising about 5,000 soldiers under the comma Mclieved to have taken his own life by shooting himself through the head. Te left his home week, ago and the same day his wife received a message from him saying that if he was not home by nightfall he would know. that he was dead.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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