Untortonately at the very moment when news worth the reading is expected, the wires connecting Shanghai aod Havkow dowa The fact, ires to Hankow being br sbout mid-way between Tatong and Kiukiang. It was here that doring the recent floods they were broken dome, and temporary repaire bad to be effected, and the likelihood is that it ix simply case of another breakdown From Waba " leonch has been 1 to remedy the and by to-day at latest, oom-manication is expected to be restored.
To Peking, by which route messages woold have been able to arrive io other circamstancer, the rebela are ated yesterday, the telegraph office io Hankow is in charge of a party oot the rebels, numbering in all twenty, only ove of whom can apeak Eo; Practically the Inst news that through before the service brei ing ip over all telegrams, and with the exception of thors sent by the representatives of the foreign Powers, only mevnages in plain English, apposed to code, were being accepted, and then only from fore ga firms. At the came time, however, the Chicese staff of the office wore ssid to have taken posserion of all the money they could lay bands poo, and bulted.
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