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surrender at a very early stage, by some of the sailors,

but he pluckily refused, I am told the conduct of

bluch

some of the foralmára would make any white man blacie

if he knew it on the night the Ting quan was torpedoad

she

Albe 113 beached in 3 fathoms of water, and the Tatar

came up to her upper works on which the crew huddled

together all night with a temperature of¬14°!

and

Thure 933

The Chinese torpado borts which tried to e3-

cape were deserting, and wore fixed on by the fleet,

one of the forts, which sank one of them –

no lack of ammunition or provisions, but there were ne

man lok to fight the gune as the goldiers would not.

I hope to get soma mara information on the subjectj except what 39 saw in the newspapers or Reuter's tel0-

To haɑ no reliable information at Peking, except

one tolomman from the Admiral on February 7th.

As an illustration of Chinese methodo, I must

Tastai tell you this story; the Baolet of Chefeo ras so afraid

of the lawlessness of the Baritives from Wol-haiwei,

that he stationed an executioner on the rond with

ordars to behead every furitire the case along towards Chefoo; after several had been decapitated the others

thought it beat to avoid that road and pass behind

Chefoo, instead of throwth it;

the native town of Chefoo

is practically depopulated, nearly all the inhabitanta

having

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