About two weeks ago as the soldiers of the camp wre ed in camp.ny duill, two of them suddenly fell to. the ground, struck by astray hullo: from the target practice of a neighbouring camp a half-a-mile away. Th" ball pissed through the arm of one and lodged in he body of the msn next him. The two men were Drought to the Mission hospital and their injuries examined. Ir was found that the wound of the firet man was not serious and he is now rapidly recovering. But after lowing him the bullet smashed its way through the hip of the second man any passed into the abdominal cavity, bey. the reach of probing. It must have wrought serious mischief there, for the next day the died. Before his death, however, an incident. occurred, which showed the real soldierly spirit' that is being inculcated among these men. He was lying on his bed and groaning, evidently in considerable pain. Commander Tang (who had been with the men all the time that their wounds were being dressed) went to him and told him that " soldier ought to best pain bravely and not make "fuss about it. The man ceased immed ately from his groans, and for the rest of the time that he lived bore the pain in silence without moaning or com-pint, He was Fivon 8 prot military funeral and beried with all the honours of war.
A Chinese compradore of the German company now went up to Nganking to seo if he could bring the matter to an adjustment. Finding this impossible, be returned, taking with, him the second officer of the launch. On their way down they apparently thought out the following ingenious method of procedure, and on arrival the second officer made the star. ment to the German company authority that on reaching Nganking a hundred boys from the Military College and Training Camp boarded the launch, broke up the furniture, disabled the engines, and finally took five hundred dollars from the money box and went their way.
The Suichi authorities, filled with tighteous(?) indignation, placed the matter in the hands of the German Consul at Nanking. He wrote a letter to the Governor here, protesting against this outrage, and demanding that the launch and engines be repaired, the five hundred dollars restored, and an additional five hundred dollars added for every day that the Isunch lost on account of the injury. The Governor replied that the launch was the property of a Chinese company, but that even were it a German company, according to the treaty, such matter would have to be settled by the local officials, and requested the Consul not to interfere in what did not concern him.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.