Chinese Boy Killed and Another Injured One Chinese scavenger boy is dead and another so. shockingly jured that his life in despaired of following an explosion on the British glacis in Peking, shortly after 11 o'clock on the morning of October 27, says the "North China Standard, First theories were that the hoys had found a bomb which had exploded while they were playing with it. This appears to be incorrect ax no parts of shell casing have been found. The presumption ix. that they discovered a stick of dynamite ymewhere and had it in their tin container when they wandered on to the glacis in search of odds and ends of value.
The facts are that the two boys, unaccompanied, dodged under the rails of the glacis and proceeded to rake over a pile of ashes in an angle of the wall west of the second bastion of the British Legation defences. inno interference practice, out of pity for the waits.
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