Mr. Leslie Hall Osborne, aged 20, who was born in Shanghai and is a nephew of Mr. James Osborne, of Shanghai, had an unpleasant experience in Germany at the time of the outbreak of war. His adventure is related in " letter to a relative in Cambridge from which the following extracts are taken:—
"On August 5", he writes, "I determined to make a last shot to get some money for a cheque that T had received some weeks befor and for which no bank would give on the she political horizon, 80 I went me any money owing to the clouds
off (for the day) to Stettin, there to the English Consul. I saw the man who till the night before had been Consul and also, very luckily, the American Consul. They could do nothing for me et the time, but the American took my name and address, and promised to secure me a passport if that ever became necessary. He also warned me to clear out of Stettin as soon as possible, as, owing to the explosion of three bombs in the town that morning, it was no longer exactly health resort for foreigners.
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