Steamers arriving at IChang on the Yang-tsze Kiang River declare that the American steamer Alice Dollar and a British vessel under convoy of the U. S. gunboat Monocacy were fired upon at Chung-King. The Monocacy returned the fire, not without effect.
Bandits in the Province of Yünnan captured Darcy Weatherbee, British mining engineer.
Weatherbee is a Nova Scotian, 50 years of age, son of Sir Robert Weatherbee, former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. He set out on April 23 to prospect for an overland route from Burma to Peking, "through country never before...
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