'A. short time ago the Shanghai Taotai received a dispatch from the Russian Consul-General ushing thst permission be granted to a number of seriously ill and wounded Russian officers and sailors of the runaway Port Arthur mon-of-war, now lying dismantled in Shanghai harbour, to return to Russia for treatment as the facilities of Shanghai were not equal tothecompletionof their cure. This request having been duly forwarded to the Viceroy at Nanking and in turn sent up to Peking by the latter olfisial, a reply has been received from the Waiwupu to the effect that a properly qualified foreign physician should be asked to make an examination of the sick Russians in question, and that if it should trans that there is reasonable ground for gr ing the Russian Consul-General's request, it should be compile' with on grounds of humanity. The consent also of the Japrnoso Government is now being awaited by Yuan Taotai The Reported Absconding of
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