The men then gathered together some clothing, including a fur gown, a padded woollen gown, a Woollen over-jacket and some small articles. They then asked the amah if there any children, to which a reply was giv the negative. Nevertheless a search was made of the house for children. The small W-your old son of Br, C had by this time aw {the six strangers in the house, and hho immediately: into" the kitchen and erept into the fire-place of the oven, hiding there until the robbers had left.
In conversation with a representative of the "North-China Daily News" My. Ching said that, Following the recent Yuyuer Road care, in which the child of hie friend,' Mr. had been kidnapped and the amah shot dead, he had warned his children beforehand to stay at home, inside the house.
Fortunately, ' the family had arisen only a short while before, and there was no fire in the oven, otherwise the lad would surely have been badly burned, if not to death, Tue project of a bridge over the Huangpu has ogam been mentioned ie reported that the new Chinese Superintendent of Customs, Mr. T-a Vu-tsi, contemplates this in his programme of work.
8 crane to be governed by the fellow-provincials, of which Hupeh has lately been "such a. prominent example, fe now agitating the minds of Shanghai merchants. They have telegraphed to Peking recommending the appointment of MrT. Y. Moh and Mr. Yuan as Hulpon (Associate Directors) of the Shanghai Specis! Municipat Ar Mr. Moh is a. returned
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