The foreign community had the more reason to apprehend trouble J—in fact, most probably it was the reason why the Chinese behaved 80 fawdaecfously—because, while all this was going on, they did not have th protection of 'a gunboat, H. Mf. S. Widgeon had been there a little while before, but left when ther did not appear to be any neod for her services, When things again bcenme serious, HM.S, Keppel jzent down from Shanghai, but she had not arrived when the foreigners, [were evacuating the city, will please the sporting follo lof Shanghai to learn that, their departure was. hui and, of course, very fow things could be brought away, the refugees got all their household pets safely Shanghai, One group who were visited yesterday had a regular pack of small dogs in the house, biissfuly ignorant. of their own fears that probably never again. would they see their homes in the 1 [condition in which they Toft. them, bearing in mind the way things went at Kiukiang.
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