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have been signed with France. The famous Bogue Forts, which guard the approaches to Canton, have been almost completely re-constructed,
and are now mounted with
very
heavy ordnance, including many
Krupp guns of
various calibre.
from 35 tons downwards. Am
number of
new Fort's have been
built at different points ;
a series
:s swarm with
of entrenched samps soldiers armed with rifles of recent pattern, and under instruction by European (chiefly German) and
American
American Officers; in fact the
whole length of the river
sea to Canton
may
from the
almost be
said to bristle with what all
competent judges consider to be very formidable fortifications. Moreover, several fields of submarine mines and torpedos have been laid down, and the
river steamers cannot pass among them without special pilots. Above all, the river has been blocked in
two places by strong barriers of
stone, with narrow
openings for the
existing