Blue-jackets to the Fore

A party of Chinese soldiers boarded the U. S. steamship Alice Dollar at IChang on the Yangtsze-Kiang and asked for transportation up the river. On being refused they became violent and in the resultant fracas several shots were fired. The matter was ended by a squad of

American blue-jackets from a gunboat anchored nearby, who arrested 15 soldiers, but not before they had injured the captain of the vessel and three women, including the wife and daughter of the Dollar line agent.

At Peitaiho near Shanhaikwau, the British Admiral Anderson and party, which included several women, were pelted with stones and handfuls of mud by rickshaw men at the conclusion of a ride in rickshaws. British blue-jackets rescued the party from its obnoxious situation.