Wo regret to have to chronicle the sad death by drowning in the Soochow Creek near St. John's College, Jessfield, of two students belonging to the institution. It seems that the two youths, who wore brothers, were strolling along the Creek when the elder slipped near the bank and fell into the water. In his excitement the younger brother made a desperate attempt to save his brother from drowning by jumping into the Creek himself, with the result that both were drowned. The unfortunate students are said to have been kinsman of H. B, Wang Kai-kah, Chinese Tmperial Vice-Commissioner to the St Louis Exposition.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.