Preparations Against Threatened:
Trouble in Canton Shameen, Mar. 29.
Ten men fre HM, S, Tarantula and ten from the U.
Constructed a machine-gun entrenchfnent covered over with iron-plating this afternoon en the back of the Bund at Shameen, near the Canton Chub. French defensive lines have been fully prepared.—Reuter.
Losox paper says that two-year-old brown trout have been put Into the River Aln. A total of £.000 front will be used for re-stocking, which was rendered necessary by an pecidental inrush of creosote into the river Iaet summer, when thou-weanels of fish were destroyed. The Fnsling Association has raised large sum for the purpose.
On hearing the firing, and knowing that there were still some women at the British Consulate, Mr. Hober rushed round through the passage and entered the Consulate Office compound, unarmed.
'Two Southern soldiers threw! themselves on him, but he dragged then: along with him, Entering the office, he tripped over the steps. They' all fell in a heap. One of the soldiers got up drew his revolver and fired several times into Mr. Huber's body, kill him instantly.
Several other Southerners came and, seeing the body, also fired at it Ts is d a to emphasize that so far az can be ascertained Mr. Huber was the only man killed; while resisting. All the thers were first captured and then murdered.
The author is prepared to swear that all the murders and looting done round and about the British Consulate between 10 a.m. and three fom, on Thursday ~were the work soldiers in uniform of the Southern Army. The-behaviour ct Swiftly and surely smokers are headed for natural tobacco taste Liocerr & Myers Tosacco Ca.
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