He prepared a petition in Chines to be handed to Tupan Chu Vu-pu of Chibli, in which definite charges were made with regard to the gon-mistreatment of the White Russians in the Chihit army.
Sometime between January 1 and 5 héwent to Pekin for the purpose of presenting this petition to Tupan Chu Vu-pu. He was unable to find Tupan Cha Vu-pu in Peking and returned to Tientsin were ho was arrested at the railroad station, Apparently on information provided by the agents of General Sung, who was his immediate chief in the Armoured Train Division of the Chihli Army.
From this time nothing further has been heard of him until, a few ago, information came from Peking to his family that he had been shot at Tsining. The whereabouts of his body are known and no information is available, According to his relatives, Major Slavetsky has not received his salary for more than a year and the amount owing to him at the tims of his death was about $2,000, I: fg assumed that he may have been shot because those involved in the diversion of funds owing to the White Russians in the Chibli Army were afraid of the prospects of an vestigation.
The local White Russian press publishing special articles on this subject daily.
Major Slavetsky leaves a mother and grandmother in Russia, for whom he has been th main' support. His sister and fiancee are in Shanghai, ToKyo, Feb, 10.—A message from Kire, Hiroshima Prefecture, states that a stone wall collapsed in the back-yard of the residence of Licwt-Commander Kadomae on Nishiatago-machi, with the consequence that his wife, two children and a maid servant were crushed authorities, who prohibit all gath-brings of students other than for study.
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