Nine Footer Coming fern Honan 'A. giant well over nine fect in height has been engaged to collec admission tickets at the National Athletic Meeting to be formally yened in Nanking on October 10, jhina's National Holiday, elaborate ions for which are being official so the Central Gov-
Tu view of the groat, success of the last National Athletic Meeting, in Hangchow a couple of years ago when tens of thousands of spectators went there to witness the big event; officials in charge of this year's meeting have been for several months past looking for a man who! will be capable of efficiently handling the collection of admission tickets from such a huge crowd.
The efforts made by the officials wore crowned with success recently When they found the man they! expected in a soldier of the Govern-_ then troops stationed in Sinyang, Honan, who was well over nine feet ju height, The man is now under the command of Gen. Chi Hur chang, and, when he was approached, recently by a. representative of Nanking officials with a suggestion to work at the National Athletic Meeting, he at once, agreed.
One reason which has caused the giant to accept the National Athletic Sleeting's invitation is that he is Mgintton" and eats as much as seven or eight ordinary persons. He has frequently complained of the meagre quantity of food given him in the army, and when he was told that he would be allowed to eat as much as!
could should he come to work in Nanking, he gladly accepted the offer.
Nanking officials in charge of the! National Athletic Meeting have sent fa telegram to the giant, asking him to make the necessary arrangements with his superior officers so that permission will be granted for him come to the south as soon as The giant is only 25 years!
A Bloodless coup d'etat has been to work at present owing to the effected in Lanchow, the provincial stand which Soviet Russia takes in capital of Kansu, os a result of [Columban's Mission, Shanghai, that the matter. British capital which which Gen, Ma Hung-ping, chair-ithe Rev. Father Sands was taken! iwas largely invested in Eastern man of the Kansu Provincial Gov-prisoner by the Communist bandits [Siberia is now turning its eyes to fernment, has been deprived of his in Hupeh on August 1 Manchuria, finding that it can do Power and is being detained in th Father Sands had travelled to Inothing with the Moscow govern-city while Gens. Ma Wen-ping and Chi Wu Tai to celebrate Mass on tment which shows good results. It Lei Tsung-tien, who were respon-August 15, the Feast of the thas been a weary and tiresome sible for the coup, have appointed [sumption "He arrived there on the struggle to get the Chinese to see themselves, respectively, acti fave of the Feast and learned that chairman of the Kansu Provinei ithe benefits that would accrue from the "Communists "had come Government and the commander-in-having experienced men working in about the same time and burned the chief, of the Peace Preservation the country, but at last, all difficalt village of Lou Jo Kow. According-Force for that province, according! ties have been surmounted and a ly, after Mass on the 15th, he set telegrams reaching' the local British Company has actually got ject for Yo Kow, the nearest mis-Chinese press. sion station to which he could lconeession signed.
The coup took place on August 25 travel in safety.
The concession is for gold mining when the Provincial Chairman, who Halt way to "Yo Kow he found lin the Hingan district of the Hei-was a nephew of Gen, Ma Pu-hsiang, the Communists entrenched, and llungkiang Province and in the chairman of the Mongolian and Jaccordingly returned to. Chi' Wu
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