Unconfirmed reports were current on Tuesday to the effect that Gen. Hsu Shu-tseng ("Little" Hsu), the "Anfu High Commissioner' to Europe, America and Japan, was shot by' a Chinese on board the str. President MeKinley, on which he Was travelling from Japan Shang!
No official news was received in 'Shanghai and the Dollar Line peo-well as Gen. Hsu's Shang-agent, said' that they received no reports whatever. The Dollar Line agents said that the President McKinley was to have left Kobe for Shanghai yes. terday and would be due here tomorrow.
General Hsu's agent laughed at the report and said that had there certainly been informed by been anything of the kind he would
wireless, which as certainly seems most probable. Gen, Hsu, he said, was accompanied by a dozen asso: clates, including a strong. personal bodyguard, and it was unlikely that he could have been assassinated, When the vessel arrived here it would be seen how much truth there was in the report.
Gen: Hey' re "North-China Dolly, News night that, in response tou wireless message sent to the President inlay, Gen, Hsu's colleagues on emphatically deny the rum-Their' chief, they say, ix alive and well and is looking forward to the time when he will return to Shanghai, The representative said that evidently the rumour was elreulated as a result of the attempt to assassinate Gen. Hung Chao-lin on board the President Pierce,
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