Two French intermediate steamers arrived with over 3.000 coolies returned from the Chinese Labour Corps in France.
We are shortly to lose Mr. J) F. Brenan who has been Acting H. B. M. Consul for several months during Mr. B. Giles's absence en fur-louch. It is understood Mr. Giles will return to Nanking in a few days. me, bracing weather has pre-yuled right through the Christmas and New Yeer Wolidevs, and is continuing. The—thermometer reading has been down as low as 18°; on one occasion it went down to 10°.
There have been several cases of a and typhoid. but so far unattended with any serious result.
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