Weihaiwei, Nov. 7.
On Saturday, H. M. S. Desnatch, apt. Hamilton, v.s.0., suddenly Inft for Newchwang, where trouble has been brewing between the nstoms authorities and Chang Tso-lin. The Governor of Manchuria is. if would seem, technical-Iv a rebel against the Peking Government and desires to import ammunition through the Treaty Port. The Commissioner of Customs, it is said, is holding up this ammunition and Chang has threatened to take it by force. A threat of that nature requires counter-threat: hence the need for a British warship H. M. S. Despatch returned this morning and presumably this storm in a tea cup has blown over.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.