Ichang, May 22, The A.P.C. steamer Anlan turned turtle here to-day. She is a total ess, lives were lost-—Reuter's Pacific Service.
A telegram has been received in Shanghai giving brief particulars of the casualty.
Tt seems that the Anlan was projeeeding down stream, and when in the vicinity of Changshou was not arned of an upward bound steam-the Took Yuen. This neces-changing her course and takings wether channel, in which, scourred the casualty which has re-
'A. correspondent last week asked if any one knew of shells that fell in the Settlement during the late war, We learn from a reliable source that, five shells fell in the Western district, five of which dropped in the Tung Wen College compound, while another exploded in Hungjao Road. All of them may be seen at Bubbling Well police station, A. dramatic incident in a story of which more will possibly be heard took place in Burkill Road on Saturday afternoon. A lady and gentlemen of Russian nationality were walking along the road when they were overtaken by another Russian who dashed some corrosive fluid into their faces, The lady received serious injury. and is now detained in hospital. Her companion was less seriously affected and was able to leave the hospital after having had his injuries attended to, Tue Kuo Wen News Agency's Lady's. Maid Raber. sulted in the total loss of the German City, The ving obe the beginning ween the first and second asia between the second and third acta 14 days elapse. the Olympic Theatre, Shanghai, on May Produced by. the Garman A.D.C. a vessel. It is stated that the casual ty was primarily due to one of the Upper River signal stations not operating and informing the downward bound Anlan of the approach jof the Took Yuen. These signal stations, which apparently are a form of traffic control on the rive re a comparatively recent institu: won given atthe Olympic Theatre tion, and have become necessary on Wubnday. te is avery diferent] recount. of the ever-increasing Journal, known as the "Kuo Wen Weekly," announces that, begi from the next issue, it, will p a series of cross-word puzzles in Chinese characters, those sending in correct solutions being entitled to a year's free subscription of the magazine. Tt is anticipated that a urge number of Chinese scholars will compete. This is the first time that a Chinese publication has fallen for the cross-word craze, hay: from "Liliom'" and one of Tighter type. In Clarissa, however, Max Brod has depicted the same mixture of good and bad characeristies, the same struggle between idealism and weakness as did Molnar fiom." The comedy was written three years ago Max Brod especially for Leopoldine Constant, sticcessfal actress. It is deseribed by those familiar German drama as super-modern," and it has roused much discussion.
Cla sa vibrates between grate-fol love to her husband and menting faithlessness. She need: love as a motive force whereby she portrays pure and noble charac. fers and through the earnestness liber acting above her passions and intrigues. Although her husband is warned that fe is untrue to him he refuses to believe the ace jeusations and believes that tie his duty to care for her, as for wonderful work of nature. Clarissa's painful unrest causes every one in the theatre to suff from her moods. She is eked between her desire to remai true to ker husband at her craving for the fire of new passions.
fancy is for a young, 'AL the time the play opens her ambitious stage manager of a small theatre whom she assists to obtain a pos Hien in the Metropole theatre. [Soon she discovers, however, that she is only being used as a stepping-[stone in his career. He discards the "star" for a young chorus girl with whom Clarissa quarrels, but who nevertheless influences Cla for good. After this bitter disillusionment the star decides to retire from the stage and does £0. A ifttle while: later, however,:" she yields to the "persuasions "of er husband and: thedtrieal friends and revuhs to, the' boskderbea of steamship traffic on the Unper River. Ae is known, there are certain parts of the river where the channel and currents are extremely dangerous and it was partly to obviate congestion and casual-it these parts that the system of signal stations was brought into being.
The Anlan is stated to be lying Keel up in six fathoms of water. Tt has not yet definitely been ai certained whether she struck submerged rocks in the emergency channel she took, or whether she foundered from other causes.
There were no casualties, and the oticers and crew of the Anlan arriv ed safely at Ichang on May 23, An Ichang Corresponident writes:
The Asiatic Petroleum Co's Str Anlan which for a number of years has been on the run between Ichang land Chungking was. wrecked on (May 21, She left Chungking in the morning and 35 miles down river about 8 o'clock struck about the same place on which the Str. Robert Dollar was lost last year, Unfortunately she was holed in the engine room, the ship was at once out of hand, and it was therefore found impossible to beach her. Aa attempt was made to get wire hausfers fixed ashore and heave her in Dbut they soon parted. The accident happened at a place where there are bad under-currents, which accounts for the difficulty in getting her into the side. After about two hours she turned turtle and sank. Muck sympathy fs felt for the forei officers, who lost nearly all their belongings. While the foreigners and a very few of the natives were busy trying to save the ship most of the Chinese secured their belongings' into the numerous" sampans which were'abeut. Phe B.& S. Str.
Acconpina to the Chinese press the eight-year old son of a family living in Tsepoo Road was on his way to school on Wednesday morning in a private riesha when he-was ambushed by several men who pulled him out of the riesha and pushed him into a waiting motor-car, which molle off. "The matter was not reported to the police because the family was greatly scared," the port adds, 'THE Chinese press understands that a well-known merchant received on Sunday, a letter from one Wong Da-wai, who describes himself as the leader of the "Indopendent Society", asking for a loan of $5,000, The latter instructs Mr, Yang to place the money in a paper basket and leave it outside his front door and Wong would send somebody to collect it. If this was not done, Yang could expect trouble, The matter was reported to the police and detectives were detailed to the spot, but at the arranged hour, Wong's representative did not turn, up, so now the Chinese police are wondering whether yr not to con sider the matter a hoax.
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