Marseilles, Aug. 11.
The police have arrested two Greek navigators who are alleged to have bought arms and ammunition which they intended to ship to China—Reuter.
Fanaers in the villages round Shanghai are continuing their cere-/monious appeals to the god of rain, and some of them have petitioned ithe City Magistrate to order that there shall be no slaughtering of pigs for the next three days.
_-Apstinat, Sir Alexander Duff was invested by the King at Buckingham Palace on July 9 with the insignia of a Knight of the Grand Cross, to which order he was pi viously, admitted.
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