Yang Sen Reported to Have Surrounded Chungking Tite following interesting item of news appears in the "Straits Rud. get":—An enthusiastic admirer of the marksmanship of one of the performers at Jeako's Circus has sent us the letter published below. The letter is Cheow Took-chiang's; the italics are ours; with all' due respect to Mr, Carson we submit that the honour and the glory belong to Mrs. Cheow Took-chiang.
"Dear Sir—(Re' Isako's Royal Cir-JIN. J. Carson of the. above News from the upper Yangtze says that Gen. Yang Sen is on the point of surrounding Chungking in order to capture the city.
From Kiukiang is reported that 000 troops of the cld 16th rection with the intention of reaching there and thouse going to Nanking by river, It is possible that the Kiu-Kiang Opium Bureau and Chamber of Commerce will pacify these law-Jess soldiers with large monetary contributions.
Information from Tehang, dated July 15, says that the conditions ight. there are normal and teas o trickery I caked my wife. toluateer herself for the Target Feata, All the assail targets were found her head and Mz~ Carson sueceedsin eng ai the tara "Eve Bhat Mr Carson's fest cannot be ure ere fore much pleasure in. testifying
Passed. by any one si though he was Pleased io say that thin 4 the. Rest some time past the district has been ruled with firmness by General Liu Ho-tung, who has the confidence of the local Chinese, Tue "Shunpao" says that the Chekiang authorities are establishing wireless telephones to connect the different cities throughout the province.
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