FROM QUE. Ow Conusronsenr, Haichow, Dee. 1.
In answer to a query by your! Tainan correspondent who had heard that 20 odd wounded Russians had been taken from the Presbyterian Hospital at Hsuchowfa and shot, am glad to report on. authorit; a member of the Hsuchowful Mi sion that the rumour is entirely groundless and that there are not less 18 Russians still in the there and their presence cute financial problem to the hospital. None of their wounds are very serious, but they are desperarely afraid of leaving. Abandoned by the Fengtien army their case a hard one.
One of their officers died soon after admittance. He had been shot through the neck and had improved very rapidly but suddenly choked. He was buried by the Catholics in a corner of their compound.
From a sifting of reports seems fairly certain that in the Sight at Kuchen, 80 miles south of Hsuchow fe, only 110 of the 400 Russians cut their way through, the remaining 290 being killed or captured by the southern troops. The Russians declare that the Fengtien soldiers who were surrounded, surrendered te the southerners and then helped the latter mow down the Russians! people but also. your citizens who there considerably affected. For' this implore you to give instruc countrymen fiving in the Prevent the over-ist Feney.—Bastern News Agency.
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