Telegrams to Shanghai yesterday jing conveyed the news that everything was quit there (at the time of despatch, early morning). At that time the city itself bad not fallen to the assailants, although the latter bad all the commanding positions sarrounding it. Ouse report hed it that there had been an armistice arranged for twenty-fear hours, s it was believed that the revolutionaries were desirous of avoiding any farther fighting by leaving This statement ix, however, uns; another message which states that th discontinuance of hostilities for the time being was due to a protest by the foreign authorities against a bombardment which might dem and balks in the barbour. tionary gunboats bare now given notice that a bombardment of Lion Hill will and the balks and foreign been shifted from their
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