Aug. 8.
A further accusation against the captured Commander, Feng, is that he was negotiating with Shen Hung-yin with a view to General Shen's retaking Wuchow. It is said that the Commander was to create-trouble in the city while Shen's men made an attack from without. Whether this is so or not I cannot say. But last evening shooting commenced across the river. Armed men appeared on the hill-tops above the city and at once two gunboats steamed hastily forward anc) maneuvred while a launch went up and landed troops. There was some shooting, but nothing serious has developed.
To-day a despatch was received from Commander Meng who with his troops was stationed at the Wuchow mint when the Kuangtung forces captured Wuchow. and who retreated westward as far as Tangun, requesting the Cantonese troops to retire from the city as he was coming down to take control. morning everything seems peace-fu) and quiet.
Recent events at Amoy have given a chance to the local agitators. of call a meeting of protest.
this occasion certain natives of Fukien are interested, and the subject of their. deliberation will be the landing of British bluck jackets at Amoy, against which they propose to make one of their customary protests. As the bluejackets were landed only after the British Concession. at Amoy had been overrun by troops the reasons backing up the protest ought to be more interesting than usual.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.