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“...monopoly of the Taku Tug and Lighter
Company by acquiring a fleet of tugs (3) and lighters (16) of its own.
The strength of the garrisons maintained by the Foreign Powers
at various points in Chihli to guard the approaches to the capital
amounts to 8,500 men, of whom 1,860 are stationed in Peking and
3,600 at Tientsin. Each nationality has its own system of field
telegraphsthe Italians having a Marconi apparatus operating
from Peking to Takuand the submarine cable, which was laid in
1900 between Chefoo and Taku, forms a more efficient means of
communication with the outside world than the Chinese land lines.
There are military guards at every railway station, and it may
safely be predicted that the progress of Tientsin will not again be
so rudely interfered with as it was three years ago.
It is matter of regret to find that the remnants of the rabble,
which followed in the wake of the Expeditionary Forces, are being
augmented by the immigration of undesirable nondescripts, who
have filtered...”
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