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Show U. S. Gunboat is Fired On. Peking Authoritative foreign dispatches dis-patches from Hankow say that the American gunboat Pigeon was fired on by Cantonese batteries on the if ternoon of the 1-lth at Chenglingkl above Hankow on the Yangtze -river, .lie Pigeon replied with macmne guns, here were no American casualties. Fonr foreign merchant ships are now at or near Chungking ready to evacuate evacu-ate foreigners there if necessary as '. result of the rising anti-foreign sentiment sen-timent growing out of the Wanhsien affair, when British gunboats and Chinese land troops exchanged shots with numerous casualties. |