Dec. 12, "Send us smokes" ig a new form of 8, 0. S. that was sent out by the steamer Bellerophon, on nearing the! Meraey from Shai with "600; troops whose tobacco supplies had exhausted. A. tender was Lancashire was being blockaded by Shanghai. In conclusion, Mr. 'Trevelyan remarked that unequal' treaties must go and the ports and cities ought to belong to the Chinese Mr. J.S. Wardlaw Milne, Conserv ative' member for Kidderminster, said that the presence of the British troops in Shangltai had made it the Mecca of pilgrims seeking safety from many parts of China.
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