Impressing of coolies for army service and recruiting of troops. continued all day yesterday. The Tupan of Fukien, Gen. Chow Jen-en, sent an agent to Shanghai to establish a recruiting office, and this has been opened at Lunghua.
In attempting to exeape from the press gang, whilst being taken to Nanking a conscripted coolie jump:
from a moving train on Monday and was killed instantly, Three gunboats arrived at Woosung from Chekiang yesterday, and are at present. await tions from the Allied comm:
Several hundred new recruits for the Allied army arrived in Shanghai from Hangchow on Monday and were sent to Nanking al o'clock yesterday morning. The same train conveyed several field guns and a number of boxes of ammunition to the Kiangsu capital. Several car-loads of bombs, brought. here from Hangchow late'on Mon-night, were despatched to The Chekiang command is also reported to have bought a number of bicycles from local firms. Fifty have already been sent to Nanking and the remainder will be delivered in the course of a few days.
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