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wharves, and were under fire for some hours. The firing was somewhat wild during the darkness, but when dawn appeared, at 3.45, the gunboats, led at first by the Algerine and afterwards by the Iltis, steamed down the river and took up a position close under the N.-W. Fort. A single well-timed shell would have utterly destroyed any one of the six vessels, but Chinese gunnery was once more at fault. The naval guns soon mastered the heavy and modern weapons on the Forts, and before 5 a.m. the two landing parties had rushed the North-West Fort, and then proceeded along the causeway to the large North Fort at the river mouth. This was also escaladed and its great guns turned against the two fortifications on the South side of the river at close range. The whole affair was finished before 6 a.m.-a large number of Chinese dead testifying to the accuracy of the Allies' fire. Four Chinese torpedo-boat destroyers were captured with conspicuous bravery by the British torpedo-coat destroyers Whiting and Fame and distributed amongst the Allies. The demolition of the Forts was effected during 1901-2.

DIRECTORY

司公油火亞細亞商英

Ying shang A si a huo yu kung se

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.-Tongku Installation

J. G. Liley, manager

古

太 Tai koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &

Sons, Ltd.), Merchants

CHINESE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS-Tongku

(Peiping-Mukden Line)

CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS-Tangku and

Taku Bar

In Charge-E. Böckler Examiner T. Baba

Taku Bar-R. H. "Tienching In Charge-H. Grönvold

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION, THE

Tongku (near Taku); Tel. Ad: Maishan

G. H. Fawcett, agent (on leave) H. W. Howell, acting agent T. H. Hwang, assist. do.

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK-

Hsinho Installation

S. G. H. Ames

司公船駁沽大

Ta ku Po ch'uan Kung sze

TAKU TUG AND LIGHTER Co., LTD.-Head

Office: Tientsin; Teleph. 15; Tel. Ad:

Calendar

R. G Lapper, supt. engineer

H. V. Jennings, assist. supt. engineer

A. Wemmerson, assist. engineer

I. J. O. Grant,

R. Heaps, accountant

do.

A. Bramwell, bar supt.

T. S. Morton, river supt.

S. Y. Grebentschikoff, foreman

stevedore

TANGKU CLUB-Teleph. 56

Chairman--J. S. Calder Hon. Secretary-G. H. Fawcett

TIENTSIN LIGHTER CO., LTD.

Butterfield & Swire, managers W Tonkin, superintendent J. S. Calder, supt. engineer

T. G. Beer, bar overseer

PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINWANGTAO

Peitaiho continues to expand. There are now five associations, namely, Rocky Point Association, East Cliff Association, Temple Bay Association, Lighthouse Point Association, and the Kung I Hui. An endeavour is being made to arrive at some kind of co operation between these various sections, whose interests are common. The first desideratum is a Sanitary Department serving the whole district comprised in the term "Peitaiho Beach." The next necessity is to form some general advisory

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