Some excitement was caused two days ago by the explosion of a stick dynamite which a. Chiriese left on tramear, resulting in. the Gamage of the car and injury pastienger; but the effect has all 20 fox frightening the Chinebe off the trams is concerned.
Jearly hours of this morning a police patrol launch was fired upon by Chinese strike pickets near the border, without e being hit. Yesterday, six who were engaged on repairs to a ay bridge near ite frontier were induced to cress the lins demarcation and were "arrested" by Chinese soldier So much for the continuous series of pinpricks to which we are being subjected, Of no account, perhaps, in themselves, in face of the bigger problems involved, they yet form reminders of the unsatisfactory state lof affairs. Thus the watching and waiting policy is beginning to pall Jon the loyal inhabitants of this British outpost, and it is at length being openly' advocated that we might do worse than take the strong line, the old "gunboat policy," and, jeall' upon the usurpers of power at! 'Canton either to cease their malign-Jant hostility or else take the con~ sequences of a' virtual declaration lof war.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.