Ivan Rauvan, a 15-year old lad, arrested on the night of the 11th instant in a Chinese boarding house im Rue Palikao by the police, has a career behind him which could not easily duplicated. He lost his father when he was only four years of age, his mother when he was nine. At 12 he was placed in the penitentiary at Perm from which he escaped after 2 few months. Since that time he has tramped his way across Siberia to Vladivostok and back again to Harbin, begging his way. At Dairen he was arrested but detained for only a short time, then given a small sum of money and put on a ship for Shanghai.
Here some Nestorians became interested in him and he was placed in St. Xavier's School. The cloistered student life, however, palled on this wanderer after about a week of it, so he left, and since that time has been begging about Shanghai, sleeping in Chinese hotels or out of doors. As he was discovered to be an Esthonian he has been handed over to the French authorities who will determine his future.
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