From Our Own Correspondent.
V'Chang, Oct. 19.
The Teh Yang Maru arrived here yesterday and brought the following story of an armed attack upon her at Chungking.
2 1 sampans put off, and while some distance away they began to fire on her. The armed guard on board returned the fire with machine guns, with the result that all on the sampans were killed, and the boats sunk; three of the guard were wounded. The Alice Dollar was badly fired on when going alongside her berth at Chungking Fast trip, and one of the armed guard om board received a slight wound, About midnight two nights ago firing was heard in the harbour, and in the morning two wounded were brought into the hospital. The story told was that they and several others were engaged to taku opium off one of the ships. They had 10 loads on board their sampan and were taking it across the river in the charge of soldiers and they were attacked. by other soldiers, both sides firing with the result that two men were killed and two wounded. The amount of opium they had is said to be but a small part of all that was on the one steamer.
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