FIGHTING IN CHINA.
'BRITISH TROOPS FIRED UPON. EFFECTIVE RETALIATION. THE CHINESE PUT TO FLIGHT SEVERAL KILLED. By Telegraph.-Press Association.-Copyright Hoxqkoxg, April 17. A thousand Chinese soldiers, wit how provocation, fired upon a party of lu( British troops at Taipofu, in the Kow loon district. The British troops, assisted b] shells from the destroyer Fame charged and dispelled the Chinese killing several. The British casualtici wero nil. The British then hoisted the flag a' Taipofu.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11040, 18 April 1899, Page 5
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