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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1902.

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Re-building

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,950

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350

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835

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1400

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980

140

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240

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240

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878

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torpedo boat destroyer

260

6500

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4600

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180

200

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14,200

14 25,000

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363

200

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980

1400

sloop

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450

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360

5900

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1000

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160

580

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150

660

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2607 UNION ASSURANCE SOCIETY. (Intel in the Reign of Queen Aune A.D. 114).

The Special Correspondent of the Storal and wrote in recent letter from Tientsin :i -Refore passing on to matters Chinese, I feel constrained to moderne what I am sure; bas been already said in many quarters, that the conduct of Indian trousshr.gh ant the hostilities last year, and up to the present time, has been excellent--well- nigh irrupnoealis. Roth in action and during a mutations prace the soldier is exposed to strong and peculiar terapustion. In uction he may well be sight of the deli- care boundary which devides ser neces- stty and wanton savagery, and during the International stuffle on the road ti Peking it would not have been surprising had our mative trois committeti some of the bar. of their wive barities in which some

have indulged. von Lade appear Not eve, however, from those who profess to regard bagland's dusky war riors with cratempt and aversion have. I befvd me word of complaint in this score: and in general conduct at all times, thom tive trans have set a worthy example to on white forcu ore. There are fewer cises of drunkeness and for less insubor Alination among a given number of native tcoops than ating white ones; but it must not be imagmined that this is because they sze a conquererd people and their spirit broken. As an instance to the contrary, I may addres the incidents which on two oensions occurred in this Settlement in which Indian soldiers, sh being called 1140 'coolies' by passing French privates, picked the offenders up by collar and sout, and simply rolled them in the dust. The haughty boaring and bright, Bashing eye invariably noticeablo among the men bave nothing suggestive of a victim of conquest in them, and there is a marked difference between these wan who war his Majesty's unifonia and the native coolie class, who ara rather despicable beings, no doubt. In the fighting rostre to Pekin it must. he forgotten that it was the Indian and Japanese Cavalry, which decided the issaus both at Fei-tsang and Yeng-tsum; and

not

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