Peking, Sept. 16.
Reuter's representative to-day interviewed the Italian Minister, with reference to the recent rumours of alleged contraband of arms by Italian men-of-war Shanghai, which—_investigation proved to be false, the so-called: men-of-wur in reality being two submarine-chasers, which for nearly a year have been moored in the Soochow creek, and the arms belonging to these vessels.
With reference uiore especially to the notice published in some daily papers stating that the Chinese Government had protested to the Italian Legation, he was officially informed by Murquis Durazzo, who has just returned to Peking, that not only has the Ita-lion Legation received no protest but Marquis Durazzo himself has made representations to the Waichiaopu on order to stop these rumours, which have no foundation whatsoever.—Reuter.
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