WAR MATERIAL FOR CHINA.
On Thursday, August 2,500 casea of ammunition and arms weresent from San Franeiscoffi the Pacific Mail steamship Comstook. 1& 8 ammunition cases had the brand "v> *-'• Government, 45 calibre," and all the cases were from Springfield, Mass. It is now asBerted that during the past eighteen montns regular shipments on an extensive scale bave beeE made to C. Schmidt, Shaaghai. JOariuS that period 240,000 Springfield rifles ana 25,000,000 cartridges in all have heen «»• warded, besides from 500 fco 800 bales of «V ton duck suitable, for tentai, by expr.ess PJ each steamer for China. Tl.e total war material approximates to 5,000,000
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6823, 29 September 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)
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