Farther extracts from up river letters bow that the Imperisliste were praoically compelled to set fire to Hankow in order to remove the revolutionaries who, with little chance of holding the city permanently, were sniping from the houses. In other parte of the city, however, the destraction, unless regarded as a punitive measure, bed no excuse, as no revolutionaries were there.
Throughout the fighting of the firet three days of this month, the men-of-war in the river remained entirely innctive, To judge by their highness in the water, they were short of coal and smmnunition. After the fire broke out the revolutionaries suggested that the foreign Coosals might mediate for a three days' trace in which to fight the fire, and it was also naively suggested that both parties might remove to a rafe distance from the city and there fight out the quarrel.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.