The Standard Oil Company have soffered a somewhat serious loss asa result of recent fighting at Hankow. Two of the Company's large cil tanka standing outside the Concession bap-pened to be in the line of fire, and they were pierced by a nointer of bellote. The tavks contained between them 13,000 gallons of oil, and almost the inhale of it ran to waste. The firing at the tanks was not deliberate, and the loss is one of the avfortanate chances of war,
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