Mesnwbile the river has been bel by thieves for a fortnight, the only reese! allowed to pass unmolested being the shallow. draught stern-wheel which leaves Shicchow day for Yingtak. Th an anderstan between the thieves and the owners of the vessel, Other boats have to take their cbarce, sod that big one, of being cleaned out of hag That, although foreigners from their Consale to all.ansafe, they cannot. come dowa without leaving all their property behind, as the steamer will not take anyone with more than s handbag.
Me. Heslop, the English engineer on the Canton-Haokow Railway, came up from Canton recently to hand over things on the fourteenth section, which be has just resigned. When ready to return, his motor Iauoch bad for some reason failed to come, #0 Mr. Heslop, with two English missionary ladies whom he was escorting to Hongkong, set out in a sampan. Six miles down, some fishermen informed them that a band of two hundred robbers was holding the river and as the compan bed only " guard of two soldiers, there was nothing for it bat to retare, Mr. Heslop waited two days, when as oeither his own lanoch nor the
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