Shanghai, Feb. 10, Travellers from Nort: China returning to Shanghai describe the extraordinary cold weather ex~ perienced ai Tientsin and. Peiping and tell of unusual incidents in connection with the ice blockade which froze up Tientsin and other ports in the Pelkal Gulf. Latest reports are that the blockade is break: Ing and steamer movements—have been resumed.
According 10 one Shanghai resident who returned from the north yester~ Jéay, one of the companies had Jeargo junk frozen: in and ay it wa Impossible to get any fud or food to the vestd, the crow deserted it In the midst of the ice and walked Yack eleven miles to Tientsin, leave ing the junk empty.
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