Tientsin, Aug, 5.
There was considerable excitement this morning when a large force of Chinese police fired on two armed robbers in the ex-Russian Goneession. The robbers put up 2 good fight, wounding a number of police, though eventually they were surrounded. One of them, however, got away in a mysterious manner.—:
Reuter, Arnoros of the now very serious water famine in Hongkong, the "Hongkong Daily Press" writes; We wonder how many members of the general public and how many of our Unofficial Members of Council realize that at the present time five million gallons of water are Lbing wasted daily. Kowloon, at the moment, has more than enough water from' its own reser-vairs. The Shing Mun valley supplies are not being touched and, therefore, they are pouring gloriously into the sapin one great stream. A pipe line is required to bring this water across the harbour but apparently there is some trouble about deciding the best method of laying the pipe.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.