July 17.
Details regarding the recent figfiting in Yunnanfu and of the ex: plosion which wrecked a large part of that city are now slowly coming Te appears thnt the explosion oeciirted at the arsenal which inside the walled city. A thousam® people were killed anvl 6,000 injured and a huge number of buildings destroyed.
As far as is known the British Consul-General, Mr, C. C. A. Kirke, cane, was the only Briton injured, There were no casualties among the French colony, but there is news concerning American residents,
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