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Show ,i - T TROl'BLK OVER LANDS JOHN BULL AND THE CZAR LIABLE TO CLASH. i KiiHMlan 'oAa'kii Kjei-c Workmen From Land Ifffncl ij llrltnn. and llritlfth Gunboat I. ami Tarty of nine Jackets ami Moinn Varlilp YYltMa Firing: iJiBlam-e of Itiinnlaii t'oiiMtltate. Shanghai. Any. 29. As the outcome of a dispute regarding the ownership of some lands at Hankow, on the Yang Tse-K iang, about Too miles frotn the sea, which were purchased in 1S03 by the concern of .Jardine. Matheson & Co., but were subsequently included iD the new concessions to Russia, the owners, under the advice and protection protec-tion of Mr. Hurst, the British consul, sent workmen to fence in the tract. After the work was begun a dozen cossacks from the Russian consulate appeared on the scene and forcibly ejected the workmen. The captain of the British second-class second-class gunboat Woodlark, specially designed de-signed for river service, after consulting consult-ing with Mr. Hurst, landed a party of blue-jackets and moved the Woodlark within firing distance of the Russian consulate, for a time a tight seemed imminent, but nothing further occurred. occur-red. The blue-jackets are now guarding guard-ing the property. The British third-class gunboat Esk, has been dispatched to Hankow from this port. ( i reat Britain is evidently determined to uphold British rights. |