Shanghai, Jan. 3.
In accordance with their policy to reduce the number gunboats. on the Yangtze River in order to fulfill military requirements elsewhere and to release a number of trained officers and men for employment on active service, His Majesty's Government have decided to lay up two of the three gunboats now on the river above Hankow. This operation will accordingly take place in the near future. about at the time, Investigations Were carried out by detectives from Gordon Road Police Station.
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