Canton, Aug. 20 (By mail).
Dr. Oscar J. Thomson and Dr. John Kirk, of the Canton Hospital, the first foreign medical institution in China, departed on August 17 on a trip to Australia, America, and Europe in the financial interest of the institution. The Hospital, formerly under the American and British Missions only, will be reorganized so as to become unde-nomination al and international in Aug. 29.—It is reported in military quarters that Yao Fuying and six others who proceeded to Fengtien to assassinate General Chang Tso-lin, were brought. back to Nanyuan on August 27 and shot.—Reuter.
Cuixese jute producers living 10 and 12 wiles above Tientsin have been using the Hsiho River as 2 depository for decaying vegetable matter, with the result that the water supply in the British, French and ex-German concessions has been contaminated and the river is said to be black as ink.
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