About 1,000 troops, it is said, have been eolistened within the last month. worried. through the trouble last year without any gunboat ootil the iota bad actually occurred; we have 80 far worried through the troubles of this your. Last year we were "compensated for the fun of making bonfires out of our goods and chattels. This year nothing worse hes happened to us than being tarned out of our houses on to boats, or, at the Consal's atrong recommenda sending our women folk off to ogbai. Such trifles as these it may be a no monetary compensate-n, though most of the foreign community here is by this time painfully aware that there are bills to meet that coald be scheduled as clearly as any of last year's bus. The sight of " gan-boat in the port would make ne feel that at any rate we were not clean forgotten. Of course nobody rob Hankow; neither do feel that we are gaarded at the n Tebong or vice rersx. At such a time as this both ports ought to have some permanent protection,
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