Only a few weeks have elapsed since the death of the reputed oldest white man in the world, Mr. Joha Shell, an American, occurred. We presume that honours in the way of longevity have now descended upon. a landed proprietor" king of row {r he worth He] of Valin Polo A cos "Shanghai Journal of Commerce," Rtasinsky, who claims to be 132 a letter from Dr. Sun Yat-sen to! the President dealing with the general situation.
_Discussixe the flight of Dr. Sun at-sen from Canton, the Japanese paper Jiji" says:—-Personally we are not without sympathy for Dr. Sun for his present downfall, but irom the standpoint of the general) interest of China his predicament is of no consequence. Dr. Syn has had s many bitier experiences of defeat that he may nod take his present downfal} serio! ussly io heart. At all events, the rise or fall of this or that politician in China the present juncture is not wor of close attention for its effect. on} the general situation of China. They are all of mediocre ability and calibre. and people may well he convinced that the ups and downs of the personal fortunes of these Chinese leaders will leave the full! general situation unaffected. years of age. If his story is true it is even more remarkable than. that of the late Mr. Shell, for {while Mr.
Shell remembered the universal sorrow caused by the dearn of Washington, Mr. Krasinsky claims to have seen Napoleon during the retreat from Moscow. This was in 1812, and Mr, Kresinsky had enlisted in the Imperial French Guard in 1809, being then 19 years of age In 1830 he fought on the side of the insurgent Poles, and }fer that did i6 years in Siberia.
t free, he offered his services to Rassia at the time of the Boxer campaign, and he now mentions that he tock part in that expedition and also in the Russo-Japanese War. If the date of his birth is correct—1790—he was campaigning after having passed his century, and that is decidedly hard to swallow. It is true that men over were killed in. France going ever the top' with their battalions in one case in 1915 in a Highland
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