Deserters From Taku Held Up For Lack of Coal Canton, July 29.
After a fortnight's silence, the gunboats Yunghsiung, Chuyu, and Hajou are now somewhere south of Keelung, en route to Canton, a to the Central Press.
authoritatively stated that]
free gunboats have sent message to Canton asking for their, supplies voyage from Taku.
'A high naval officer said to-day that a supply ship had been sent to meet the gunboats near Hongrong: The supply ship would transfer food supplies and coal to the gunbous fad them up the, Pearl Their delay in arriving, it stated, is due to their deviation rom the usual shipping channel
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