The foreign superintendent appointed by the Customs resides in a house about 100 ft, from the dynamite magazine which is guard ed by three Sikh watchmen. Within 400 yds. of this magazine is a gasoline installation owned by the Asiatic Petroleum Company, which was erected in comparatively recent. years.
It is with the gunpowder magazine that we now wish more particularly with to deal. The lessors now desire to take ponsossion of the land it stands on. The Customs have no recourse and our information is to the effect that it is proposed to build a temporary magazine neat the merely away transport high explosives to that point. The gunpowder magazine has been guarded by a Chinese tchman and, as before-mentioned, three Sikh watchman guard the dynamite magazine under the direction of a foreign superintendent who, however, has no telephone and it is difficult to see how the later would communicate with those in higher authority in the case of urgent need,
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