Peking, Jan. 7. The evacuation of British men as well as women from Chengtu, elsewhere in Szechuan and from other parts of Southern and Western China has begun in some places, and all preparations for evacuation have been completed in others.—Reuter. the' foreshore on the left of the defending line. Owing to the steep slope of the foreshore down to the river, it was difficult to understand ithe immediate objective of the mob, but, in view of what happened, it lonly can be surmised that they had decided to attack some of the Naval Jmen who were in isolated positions jon the foreshore, To repel thi attack a small party of Marines, regular and special police doubled down to the foreshore, where thera occurred a skirmish which showed to! what a pitch the mob had been worked up. The Chinese must have assumed our men had loaded rifles, for all the time they had been Jdaring them to fire, and in any ease they could see the fixed bayonets, but hundreds of them, armed with stones and bamboo poles, rushed at} the little force,
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