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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