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W. CLARK RUSSELL, Author në "The Wreck if the Grosecutor.”

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CHAPTER I..

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 9rit, 1904.

who worked the ship and-lived in her foresters. I was startled by the united shrieks of a castle. The lith Supply" came and wet in amber of women and a loud roaring cry pro- the hellow sens, so that one mommt her hall toeding from what I afterwards took to be one its bilge was on the ridge, with four all eyes of the sentries. I turned swiftly, and was just of peeping canno, and her round tough canvas in time to entel sight of a won in standing on the ruil of the lou or lurboard bulwarks, and in dark midway this height of the mast with the saturation of the swing of the brine, while next the saino instant she plunged into the sea.

I will say, without wishing to beast, that wement nothing showed but her upper sails; you would have said she was sinking, that yon theas never was a better swimmer than I swif❘ were seeing the last of her ore her topmost can ter they may have bou, but none of wore vas was sucked down; then up she would come endurance in the water. I have fralicked in again with her brave, and saucy grin galt water for six hours at a stretch, resting ou and silver spouting of suppers. She was in my back after diving, finding rust too in treat. doud a little ship for so long a voyage, OTLE ing water, and viane ashura far from being hundred and sevenly-ture tex ns I told spent that I would feelequal to another tio's the diversion. ning that you. But it is true that great enterprises, maritime

y loss renoward than cars was to prove, had fire vanish 1 whipped off my cunt. shook off my shoes, threw down my cup, and springing on adventured in much stunller barks.

ou to the little quarter-gallery where the matubrace came to the Tumpkin. took a look wake, nad and saw the floating woon in our putting my hands together wont overboard having the rest of the business to Captain

THE ANCHOR'S WEIGH'D. Comunales Phillips, on board the Sirfar, made the signal to his feet to weigh shortly

The abode of the ngirines was a narrow com after daybreak on May the thirteenth, 1987. The ship lug of the Motherbank, which is a partment. bulk-headed off from where the shoal nearly alvast of Ryde in the Ish of prisoners livad, and where tim níficers of the ship Wight

ton one side, ami Cospert in Hampshirelay, I forgot how many marines we carried; the other. The day broke fair. The sum perhaps night or ten. Had they been felons rim over Portsmouth was a fine pink, yet with they could not have len worse lodged. A few something wet in it, und the eye of the uriner tanks half filled tån den, and sono karirocks did not need to longthily explore the face of the sky do discover a fureenst of trouble in a vast variety of little arrow-like clouds fading away into a kind of dimness in the south and west Tover the beautiful isind we lay elf.

Caplain Sever, the mastor of the ship wws seond nate of, coming up to me, where; I was Standing aloft the aftermost barricade seeing some running rigging all else, siya:

"La Tourle." says ho, what slip is that getting under weigh yondior

He pointed to a frigste that, as though in re sponse to our Commeckice's signal, was velorg ing into squares of canvas, With the rapidity that as ever characterise the maneuvres of the British ship of war.

we tenk our

I believe she is the Hyam, sir." said 1. Inde, on the vester evening at Portsmouth. I had been told that this ship, a frigate of twenty-four guns, was to convoy us for about a hundred leagues down Channel, to protect us against flo corsairs and picarons with which the narrow waters in those fineswere-urolarged, Who soberly over the waters of Spithead passed the silent inerning land which the sun Bud clothed and made a pageant of with fiory wimboys and gift weather acks. and pass light shapes of anchored ships. If your tongues were silent our hearts were fend ferve of the shore with our eyes: Not a war in the Reet and understood the meaning of this We were proceeding into a distant Voyage part of the globe, to an nukuown country, despite Captain Cook's and other havigators" reports of We were likely to be many months upen the area, cooped up in a little shōp, sonar al us with male, some with female convicts, ons of whom, no matter the periods of their sentences, durst her to see England again. We thought not of the dignity and grendress of the adventures

shirh the State hal embarked as No salvors whedhor of human throat or of iron cannon, attended our going to kisselle a spirit, of trimph is our thoughts and hopes. Que depur- ture was silout. switnessed, aud menn. We were fi convict ships in charge of a coin- anndure, and attended by a few victualling enft and all we could think of was the length of the voyage the long forewell we wem tak. ing the misery of our freight of if-make women, and our chance of again viewing these green shorts which were sliding astert as the ships stood ou

it.

The yona" led the way, and Comondory Phillip in the Sirius" brought up the rear. No worms ship than his could live been chosen for fer breast the purpose he was employed on. was as mad as her buttocks were broad, aut her sailors used to my she was so glare at the fws that she could drive an empty bottle a mile along with her. There was very little visible movement of well in the water here, and yet she was swaying from side to side with s Frolicking that made her canvas leathless, dit darkened and whitened as it filled and hollowed to ber unseemly spasis.

The wint freshened when we gained de open. sen. Every ship outsailed the Commodore's, at all bad therefore in keep under redigeed canvas to hold the staggering lab in sight. The murte says to me :-

They're making a fine ontery in the Tween- decks have just come up from the barracks, Some of them are hollering their souls out. Sea-sickness when it attacks felons doesn't sem to prostrate, and shut tie up as it silencas virtuous people like yon and me."

There are

hundred and two of thous crowded together in place that's no bigger than a big bedroom ashore, and not six font aigh. Soie of them have beon used to com· forts. They have not all heen hooked up oat of the gutters of the towns and cities. And they're women!" says I.

Yes," said he, "but what women!" Anyway, they're women," said I. and they'll suffer as women must suffer whether they're lovely or loathsome. To ill you the truth, sir. it ons against my grit as a sailor to think it should he thought proper to station a rouple or more damned marines with loaded muskets to watch over them at the barrack bulk-head, and an on the foc'ste-head when they come on deck,"

"Don't yan atake any mistake. Mr. laTouche," says the minte, a sober, steady man with whom I "Some had been shipmate in a voyagay of these women holow carry Crees inore fierce aut feart with devilish passions

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amy màu steering a straight course to the fatal treu in a cart. Lucese some of these women. and they'd think no more of entting our throats and tossing or warm bodies overboard thau of pickliga porket, or lifting a few yards of silk

from a counter.

He was middle-aged, and had been married some years, and I was twenty-four, with a chiv- atrons hazing towards wonen, whose state in life always pitis, whether they were old or young handsone or otherwise married or sin- gle muptuously placed or as wretched as tire in our tween-decks: so this mate and I were not likely to come to an agramment as to our freight of ronvicts,

Sone verud of routine carried ine below into the barracks, as the den where the mariues wore bertheil was called. It was then shortly hefore nooi

The throat of the dawn had not betrayed the avruptance of the nyo. The breeze was a brisk wind; the sen ran confusel, snap pish and spiteful in spring and blow the sky was pouring in loose dark clouds, and the lance of the foam on the see-line against the gloom was like lightning sudden and bright. The ship

making heavy weather, splashing, rolling pitching, groaning. I said to myself, If she's to call this a trouble, what'll she make of a le off Agulhas Our round bows caused the water (o hoit, and the wind caught up the froth and wave a veil for our Beauty in which the head sail often disappeared. The decks subbed, the wind yelled, the shrouds rang like

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The sp was smooth, the ship was moving slowly through the water ; within a few cables length of t on the weather-quarter was the

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nierey to those who took life, whether their owa or that of others, Whilst there was life there was the promise of happiness. He talked to thou about the new land he wes carrying them to: how bountiful it was in delicious fruits and beautiful flowers, the air delightful and sweat, thy prospects noble and splendid.

When he had made an end he shook hands with Captain Sever, addressed a few words with, a stern face to the corporal of Marines, outerel his boat and returned to his ship, which hauled down her signal and filled on her topsail; the west of the ships dil likewise, and presently the eleven of us were steaming quietly southward over the pleasant sunny waters of the day,

Next morning the poor girl was buried. I Fuad enquired har nami, bat comic)not get to learn it; she was a number and nothing more. Nobody gonil or would tail me for what offence she had heon transported. I vow that her sin was light enough to warrant no more than a reproof, and I shall go to my grave thinking, of that beautiful young convict girl as an angel in heaven and as innocent as an angel in soul whilst on earth.

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thickened it overlamil that one hud to toove in this place crouching almost on all fours.

Charlotte," one of the convict ships. I heard Two marine lay holdess on the dock with son.

some shouting going on between the two vessels sickness, and a third with a gut, yellow face, hollow black eyes, und au expression of disgust and easily go the nature of the instructions

have now 40,000 Cubic foot of Co., and loathing, stood on soutey at the barricade, Captain Sever was delivering to the cruit

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137 Hongkong, 18th November, 1901. discharge their muskets among the rowd with was the very potty young creature that Cap- at laring could not be tool a bitter tain Several I had been viewing and achuiriog She must have exerted nu dislain and deep contempt for a disipline that į a little while before

set and men to watch over a crowd of helpless. | agility truly surprising to sarmonat the inner half-naked women, with power to make a sham-¦ barricade, and then climb the outer bulwark, bles of their glony, tossed and howling abode before the sentries or others could stop her. smembered as she was by a rugged grown much it the order was given to fire.

tao lig. For her.

Having done my business 1 stopped to take a peep through one of the loopholes which was of the size of a sucer, and was as good as a win- dow for sight-seeing. All the women were he- low. The latches were on, but a corner of one of the gratings haft héan loft wurovered by the tarpaulin and through this liltered the dim light of the day.

Tcould not discern faces; Loould see shapes only. If they but handlowed anek sorvausd, is the mule said, at the start, they were silent now. and the hatt silsner of all those living irure was widered slicking to the sensibility of the noises in the ship the finder of the sea-mit- tau limber, the groan the wrenched strong fastenings, the diary creaking of strained bulk, heads. The whole timed by the pitching and rolling of the chip,

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I thought she was ahead at first, so lifeless di she is in my arm but suddenly opening har

ves without looking at me, as though sheRANITE and MARBLE MONUMENTS addressed a vision that was behind 1, Nh Terbly cried. Leny me to die. I want to do! I have a right to lie!" and with that who swooned outright, speaking no more mi stir- ring, which was serviceable as her weight was nothing to support, said she wasted like a balg in my arm.

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Plio ** Ladly Penekya” huskes her main-top- sail: so did the Charlotte when, she was close to ne her people having manifestly seen all that had happened and lowered a heat, in a few minutes we were making for our own ship again.

Bild the girl, storing the water out of her air, and drying her fue with a shawl which The second mute of the "Charlotte." who was in the hont, removed from his neck.

The heavy weather almost dispersed us in the night, and next morning found as widely sat- taret. But we ran together again, and sailed in a fleek with the Hypu 14 winkward, the Strins lifting the foaming bows of ink at our heels. The frigate bore ni.com-swered. pay for alant ons hundred leagues, then, after

short exchange of flags with the Commodore, Shifted by Boln, rounded in on he weather beares and want rolling away for home de voured by the eyes of those she left behind whose hearts die vried.

In a few thys wont with fair weather and The must prostrate of the fanles were now so fur recovered that the whole company of felons was brought on deck to take the air. and I doubt not the sight of the bluesky was an open- ing paradise to them, and the dancing Nights upon the water a rapture foul a surpris, as Though erlight was Înt now created. The sea was snooth, and the breeze hershed it pleasant ly and sang in our rigging in happy inilation of the humining of book and flies in the country on summer's day. The sails had dried and rose in full and silent breasts to the white clouds which blew athwart sur trucks.

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She's mere child," said the Charlotte's mate not sightern. Aren't your couviet overlookan ?"

Ay." says L. berrivaled and sentinelled.luth, no matter how small, of which they can

not make use. She must have been mighty quick with her But a delicate little figure fuet." says ho like thet is horn for dancing and leaping Why do they banish such beauties from okl England? Are there tuo many?"

As he spake the boat drove alongside. The insensible figure of the girl was handed up. I followed. and the boat returned to the

Charlotte."

The docks had been cleared of the convicts.

Some had rau ebont It winking, som had fallon into hysteries. was pradent to clap them ander batches. weat to my whin te elange my clothes, and when I returned on deck the Captain praised my bahaviour in very civil and kind words. but added that he feared I was too late, for the girl had not yet come to: s showed no sigas of life. I was about to speak when he ints rupted me by seeing a sigual flying aboard the it was a general order for the ships Sirias."

They had been trooped below after the giri sprane into the sea.

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I was sond mate of the ship, as i have said, and had charge of the deck this forenoou watch

the. is from sight till noon. Captain Severred a boat which made directly for us, and in a few minutes in the stern shoots wo discerned au i was on deck walking the weather-side alone. 1

stod at a little skylight, by which the cabin wo less a figure than Coramodore Phillip. A gang- orcupied was Buminated and looked at the way ladder was thrown over the site, and Cap | women who moved in groups, some pensively tain Sever stoed in the gangway to receive the gazing senwards, some survey ng the roundel Commodore. The little man stepped on bourd Canvas, some talking together in low prissin. briskly. I should have regarded him with a

My very different degree of attention than that hushel voices hat with caror, vesturas. station set 200 fairly cluas to the barricades, bestowed had Iconjectured that in him I was viewing the founder of a Continent which in and every face was plain.

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CORNWALL ourable, Inimene, N gallurat and faithful a son Ilo as ever our country had reason to boast of. was a little sur man with a hooked now. yellowish skin, and keen exploring eyes. He were his own lausir in a tie. is coat was bag- gard with us, and his shunks wanted bulk as they sank in his stockings to his buckled shoes. He was something Jewish in cast of face, and spoke with quick gestures and growing anima.

The captain came slowly along, and stood be side me. He was a large pale nun, who had leen yellow in his youth and was now gray his knees knocked each other when he walked, and in arms and trunk he had been cast in the sunst awkward mould hature could figure. Yot hul I heard stories of bin when his situations ut se viliged him into activity, and I was assured that there never was a starter, a nimbler, « more alert sailer aloft, a swifter land in the first leap to the first command than Captain Seve: whether as boy, man or mate. I had taken a liking to bin when we al first met, and this obliging leaning he noticed in me, and was pleased with. and was always soft and friendly in his speech with me. Though he was Not a gostleman by birth, his behaviour was governed by the instiness of a gentlemen: his slurs liked him, and his officers served him with devotion.

How many women have we there. Mr. La Touche, think you ?" said he

*** A full eighty, siv.”

It's a perilous cargo to have charge of," waid heSome of these woman are very young. Look at that wench on the larboaril side stawling apart! I believe I never saw a more beautiful face."

We coded a good view, us we occupied a short poop or raised deck that lifted us well above the barricades. The girl le spoke of was indeed one of the sweetest nymphs the prettiest sauciest, dark-eyed lass that ever danced on the ght tors of girlhood. Though her cheek hal been blanched by mansea, though her rich and plentiful, lown hair lay in disorder under u shabby little cap or hat such as a beggar would not pick in the street, though she was clai in a ragged gown that had not been made for her. thongh in point of attire she would Ince figured finely in one of Hogarth's shabbiest crowds, her beauties, nevertheless, stole out in the little Roman nose, the long eyelashes, the soft. slark, speaking eyes, the delicate eyebrow. pouting girlish month not too small, and fuel turned chin and throat. Captain Sever looked at her with contemplation in his gaze.

Has shou mother said he What do such youth and beauty here in that gur). in this scene of wretchedness? What could have been her offence to entitle her to a sentence so barbarous as expatriation?"

The pour little sweetheart was looking pen- sively at the a-line. She seemed to be weep ing in a secret way-

The ship of the foot kopt fairly well to other. The Hyenu hung to the windward. rely to swoop down upon anything that should look suspicious. She rose and senk very stately, al made a gallant sen-show in comi He continued to look awhile at the young parison with the antics zut by some of us, no-girl, and then resumed his station at the whee tably the Friendship," whose hold of two ant 1 fell to pach the leaside of the dick hundred and seventy-four tous burthen War

watching the ship. laden with eighty male and twenty-four female convicts. not to speak of the twenty-five sailors

Aboul five minutes after this little talk with the captain, my face looking aft or over the

tion..

He got the whole story from Captain Sever, mastering the particulars with the swiftness of saracity, then turned and explored my face, and saying simply: You did very well, sir," he went below into the women's quarters with the Captain.

In-

When Commodore Phillip reappeared I sup posed he would re-outer his bast which lay alongside, and so return to the "Sirius." stand of this he comes aft on to the little poop with Captain Sever, and stands with one hand thrust into his waistcoat, darting eagle glances over our ship, at sur trim aloft. at the appear. ance presented by our decks, and thon at the ships of his fleet, and on beyond them into the distant recesses of the set, as though his vision. Columbus-like, sought the invisible.

Some minutes later the convicts again came on deck. The procession was slow, for the hatchway was so ordered by barricades, and a narrow, aleway at which stood a sentry, that bat one person could pass at a time. When the women were all on deck they were marshalled in rows as people sit in pews in church but these women stood and after a short interval the Commodore, stepping forward to what is called the break of the poop, so that he had all the people under him as a parson has who preaches from mlpit. he delivered an address. The sillors came out of the forecastle to lister- twas their dinner hour, and a time of leisure- and the decks of the little ship seemed covered with human beings.

The Commodere spoke leisurely, in a firm voice, and chose the simplest words that the most illiterate milt erstand.

When he began his address I started, and whispered to Captain Sever, who stood close:

Ay," says he," the Commalore wus speaking to her when she asked to see you, smiled at him and expired."

It was the death of this fair young thing by her own hand-for as I afterwards learned she died from the shock of the leap, the cold water, the sinking, and the horror and despair in her heart-that Captain Phillip was reating his dis

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Singapore 29th June, Coal-Dodwell & Co. ONBANG, British str., 1,787, Davies, 1st July.

Java 22nd June, Sugar-Jardine, Mathe- son & Co. PENTAKOTA, British str., 2,209, R. H. Coope,

7th July-Singapore, 2nd Inly, Génoral Jardine, Matheson & Co. PARANANG, German str. 1,021, F. Mangels

dorff, 30. June,-Bangkok 15th June, Kine. Butterfold & Swire. RAJABUKI, German str.. 1,188, D. Reimers, 6th

July, Bangkok, 29th June, Rice.---Butter- field & Swire. Rom, British str., 1,000, R.W. Almond, 4th July, Manila Ist July, General-She- wan, Tomos & Co. RUTH, Korwegian str., 2,239, Heliesen, 7th

7th July, Coal July,--Kuohinotzu, Mitsui Husna Kaisha. SHAOHSINO, British str., 1,307, B. Harris, 44h July, Wabu, and Chinkiang 30th June, General.-Batterfield & Swire. SIE, British Bus, 3216. James Rowley, 5th

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DALE. U.S. torpedo-buat destroyer, Lieut.

IL. E, Gacuell.

DECATUR, U.S. torpedo-bout destroyer, Lieut.

D. W. Kuor.

Heces, U.S. gingost.

TEK, Gorman guuboat, Commander Dein-

ling.

HISBRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS IF THE CHINA SQUADRON. Alacrity, despatch-bout, 1,700 tons, 10 guus, 3,80 h.p., Conxir. Ò. De Brock, Wõibai- wai,

Albion, battleship, 12,959 tous, 16 guns, Capt.

Fremantle, Weiliwei. Algerius, sloop, 1,050 tous, ti guns, 1,100 lp., Zomer. Rowland Nugent, Hehring Sow. Amphitrite, let class cruiser, 11,000 tons, 18,000

h.p, Capt. Charles Windham, C.V.O. Weihaiwai.

Andromedia, cruiser, 12,500 tons, Capt. Nelson

Ommaunay, Weihuiwei

Brautbls, gunboat, 710 tons, 6 guts, 1,300 L.p., List-Cemdr. O. M, Makius, Yangtszo Britomat, guabout, 710 tons, 6 gune, 1,300 h.p. Conturion, battleship, 10,50) tous, Capt. Pegau,

Lient. Lomir. Thos. D. Pratt, Yangtza

Waibaiwoi

Cressy, cruiser, 12,000 tons, 14 guns, 21,000

h.p. Capt. Henry M. T. Tudor, Weilmiwei. Eclipse, cruisor, 5,600. tons; 11 gans, Captain

Stokos, of Shanghai

Espieglo, gunboat, 1,070 tons, 10 gune, Comar.

Ernest G. Barton, Chin-wan-tao

Fame, torpedo-boat destroyer, 360 tons, 6 guns, 5,700 h.p., Lieut.-Comdr. C. Asaor, cif Shanghai

Fearless, gunboat, 143 tons, 12 gens, Comdr.

Vangbau Lewes, Weiluiwet."

Glory, battleship, 12.950 tons, 16 guns, 18,500

h.p., Captian A. W. Carter, Wailaiwei. Handy, torpedo-boat destroyer, 260 toas, 6 guns,

4.000 ... in UBER VO

Hart, torpedo-bont destroyer, 280 tons, 6 guns,

4.000 h.p., in reserve

Humber, stareship, 1540 tons, Comdr. John D:

Daintree, Waosung

Iphigenis, 2nd class cruiser, 3 tons, Capt.

Pawekner. Shanghai. Janus, terpelo-bout destroyer, 280 tons, 6 guns, 3,900 h.p., Lieut.-Comdr. J. A. Gregory, off Shanghai

Kinsha, river gnaboat, 331 tons, Lieut.-Condr.

Christopher P. Metcalf, on Yangtze Leviathan, cruiser, 11,100 tons, Capt. Hou, W.

G. Stopford, Weihaiwo.

Moorhen, river gunboat, 180 tons, 2 gans,

Liont-Comdr. G. G. Webster, West. River Ocean, luttleship, 12,950 tons, 16 guns, 13,500 Otter, torpedo-bost destroyer. 350 tons, in

i.hp., Captain Grost, C.M.G., Hongkong

resorve

Phoenis, sloop, 1,015 tous, 6 guns, 1,400 h.p.,

Conde. J. Nicholas, Kangis. Rambler, surveying ship, 583 Lons, Comdr.

Chas. E. Monro, Amoy

Rinaldo, sloop, 980 tons, 6 guns, Coadr. D. S.

Aubyn Wako, Singapore Robin, river gunboat, 85 tons. 2 guns, 240 hp., Lient.-Comir. Vangbau, West Kirer Rosario, sloop, 930 tons, 6 gnus, 11,400 b.p.

Courdr Thor, Jackson, Yang:sza Sandpiper, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2 guns, 240 bp., Lieut. Comdr. L. W. Jonos, Hongkong Siring, 2nd class cruiser, 3,600 tons, Capt. C. H.

H. Moore, Singegpore

Suipe, river gun-boat, 85 tons, 2 guns, 240 k p.. Liout-Cumdr. Eruest W. G. Davidxou, on Yazgtszo

Taku, torpedo-bont destroyer, 250 tous, & guns,

5,600 h.p. iu Reserve Tamur, receiving ship, 4,900 tons, 6 gans,

Commandors U. G. Dicken, at Hongkong Toxi, river gunboat, 180 tons, 2 guns, Lieut.

Comdr. E. F. R. Dugmoro, on Yunglazo Thetis eruiser, 3,400 tons. Capt. J. C. A

Wilkinson, Shanghai

Twood, gunboat, 362 tons, 3 guas, 200 h.p...

Lieut. Comdr. R. H. Koute, ou Yangtaza Vengeance, battleship, 12950 tous, 12 guns,

13,500 hp. Capt. L. C. Stuart C.M.G.. Weibaiwei.

Vestal, sloop, 130 tons, 10 guss, 1,400 h.p.. Comdr. Stuart St. J. Furyabar. Shangkai, Virago, torpedo boat destroyer, 360 tous

in reserve

Waterwitch, surveying ship, 620 tons, 490i.h.p..

Comdr. E. C. Hardy, at Weihaiwei Whiting. torpedo boat destroyer, 360 tons, t

gans, 5.0 h.p.. Lagut-Condr. Wells, Shangbai

Wivern, coust defence ship, armoured, 2,750 tour,

1,000 h .. in reserve, at Hongkong Woodcock, gunboat, 15 tous, 2 guns, 550 h.p.,

Lieut. Com, Hugh Somerville, Yangtase Wrollark, ganboat, 150 tous, 2 guns, 550 h. p.

Lieut.-Com. Wason, Yangisme

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SANDPIPEK, river gunboat, Lieut. Commander

H. T. Atlay. TAKU, torpedo-beat destroyer. TAMAR, revoiring ip Commo:lore C. G.

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