Gymnasium.—With a view to the institution of classes for physical training, improvements and additions to the equipment of the Gymnasium have been authorised, at the recommendation of the Commandant, to cost approximately $285. on the Rifle Range there are often stray shots which tly into the Chinese Settlement at this point: this occurs very {frequently: moreover an innocent person's life has been lost and he has met. his death thereby, On September 2 of this year at ten minutes past ten or thereabouts in the forenoon, a stray shot from the Rifle Range flew behind the Range into the Chinese Settlement, striking a building labourer on the body, and entering and passing through him. He was picked up and taken to the Tung Jen Hospital where he died. Again on September 9 at two o'clock in the afternoon or there about another stray shot flew by, passing very closely by the side of the head of a Inbourer and separated only by the width of a line. Again on September 12 at eleven o'clock in the forenoon or thereabouts the teacher, Mr. Tai, was walking on the road outside the school, when he met with a stray shot which flew past his head: and on the same day at about half-past eleven the pupils Hu, Wang and Ssu walking outside the door of the school also met with two stray shots which passed by their heads. At about 11.45 a stray shot 1008
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