The two local compradore shops Jere just outside one of the Con-'The other day when.
ign lady came out of one of these shops with a tin of biscuits funder her arm, a picket made a grab at the tin. Her husband push-led the picket out of the way and, seizing the tin, hurled it inside the Concession gates some 20 yards Jaway where it fell at the feet ithe British sentries and the pickets Idid not dare to touch it. Since then {the compradore shops have not dared to provide provisions to foreigners For the past week the destroyer Wyvern has been lying alongside one Jof the hulks, so that a landing party jean be quickly supplied. The gunboat Scarab is also made fast to Jone of the hulks. The American [gunboat Penguin is out in the river: ud there was also a Japan.se june boat until yesterday.
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