In attempting to extenuate the killing and wounding of Chinese passengers on board the French steamer Kiangking, near Patung, to whose assistance the Frenchy gunboat was going when wrecked, Chinese officials offer the astonishing explanation that the troops fired only with blank cartridges.
The U. S. S. Eleano has returned from Yochow after a quiet and wneventful trip.
The U. 8S. Monocacy hopes to complete all repairs locally, and to proceed up-river early in Septem-
The U. S. S. Palos now cruising on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, is to remain some days at Kiating on the Min River.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.