Commander Tudway Wounded:
Numbers of Pirates Killed by Machine-gun Fire Poking, June 11, Despatches from Canton give an account of an incident which occur= red recently on the East River, near Wachow, when the British river gunboat' Robin was fired upon by Some soldiers from the banks, and, returning the fire, inflicted a' good many casualties.
Tt appears that the Robin had been sent up the river to bring down some British-owned Iaunches which had been captured by pirates, Near Wuchow some soldiers open: ed fire from the banks and Commander Tudway, of the Robin, was wounded in the thigh. The gunboat replied with a machine-gun fusillade which sent the soldiers scurrying into a handy clump of bamboos. Ranging accurately with the assist: ance of a pagoda near by, the Robin's machine-gunners then swept through the bamboos, killing about 30 of the soldiers and wounding an equal number. "artil-muzzle-loader, the missile from which bounced harmlessly off the When the affair was ov Robin went on up the river and had no difficulty at all in collecting the Jaunehes and bringing them back Reuter's Pacific Servi Tue Waichiaopu has instructed the Bureau of Foreign Affairs here to submit a list of schools, hospitals and other property belonging Russian missionary organizations,
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