the Editor of the "Nonti-CHINA Darty News"
Stit,—It might interest your readers to read a German account of happenings in Shanghai during the memorable days of October. following cutting, which, is only o example of many, is a telegram to a Scandinavian ' paper from its Berlin correspondent who quotes
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"Tageblatt' as his wouree of infor-into Shanghai the. greatest citement prevails amongst the Natives. Thousands of Chinese yesterday tried to rush the for-feign eettloment and stormed the barbed wire barricades.
"The forbign/ Volunteers opened a murderous fire from guns and pitched battle developed Which an enormous number of the attackers wore killed.
"As the Chinese, continuously wore reinforced it lasted seve Sats seteny ake We. finitely repulsed. A big. forei force is to-day engaged in blasting a great number of houses: round the foreign settlement in order to guard against surprise attacks and increase the effect of the foreign gunfire Whoever supplied the "Tageblatt with this valuable bit of news has certainly got some nerve. That the products of his imagination (to use 'a polite phrase) are harmful and bound to give readers with relatives in Shanghat an unnecessary fright evidently doos not worry him. Bece Hornet Tam, ete
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.