During the past fortnight in Kiukiang there has been a marked revival of anti-foreign agitation. Every opportunity has been seized to fan the flame of popular excite ment, but, up to the present, it seems that the agitators have met with little success, except in the Chinese soldiers have a habit of commandeering junks right and left when in need of transport accommodation. At Kiukiang, they can do this anywhere they like, except between the two British hulks, as the junks at the hulks with loaded with corke for British steamers oF are waiting to receive cargo from British steamers. This is a tule which has been established all through the summer and generally it has been observed by the Chinese However, about ten days ago a Chinese officer with an armed party marched down to the 6 foreshore and began to first junk at hand, but the Petty. Officer of the naval guard on the hulk, observing this, sent two men off to inform the soldier of the established regulation.
The soldier apparently was obsireperous and it became necess to disarm difficulty. The Chinese officer on shore seems to have disapproved, because he ordered his men to kneel down, load their rifles and aim at the two sailors in the junk, seeing which, the N.C.O. of the guard on the hulk likewise ordered his men to aim at the kneeling soldiers on the foreshore. This was too much for the latter gentlemen
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