One plan decided upon in sober earnest, it is said, is to buy a light. raft gunboat to patrol thee constantly. This boat is to be equipped with 10,000 horse power engines, with quick-firing, guns, and to carry 400 men! Such an outilt, hardly tensible for any except tt largest canals, would—undoubted bbe able to handle any gang. of robs ers it might chance to encounter, though its chance of meeting any, would seem to be small in a region covered with a network of canals which offer robbers hundreds escape and hiding. the affair at Watsun, there occurred also last week the hold-up and robbery day launch from Huchow to Shang~ hai, Among the pas lost their valuables physician connected with. th Huchow General Hospital, This the sixth launch robbery since. the first of December.
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