Peking, July 23.
"know I have committed "a capital offence but T would not fee! fagerieved if 1 should be condemned to death for I have become an international figure: every province fu China and every country in the world knows Sun Lao-ssu."
Thus said Sun Lao-ssu, the selt-confessed murderer of Dr. J. H. Ingram of the American Board Mission, when interviewed by local Chinese pressmen yesterday prior to his departure for Tientsin to stand trial.
Sun said that it was Lu Mal-chin who proposed that the gang loot Dr. Ingram's cottage. Before deciding fon the attack, the brigands received assurances from Lu that Dr. Ingram had plenty of money and was worth robbing, but when they found only one wrist watch and four dollars on his person after they had shot him [dead, there was keen disappointment coupled with indignation" at the mendacity of Lu. Sun added that at one time' he and his associates threatened to kill Lu for his deliber rate misrepresentation of Dr In-[gram's financial position, Bir Anthony" Eden," Lard Privy Seat, said he did not see why the matier should not "be satatactrily retried Reuter.
London, duly 27 The Foreign Ofce, itis reported, will probably take a" decision within The next fortnight, when instructions will be sent 0 Sir Alexander Cadogan, "the British Minister hina, At the time of the incident the British troops were proceeding outside the Great Wall at Shanhaikwan for training on a ground specially suitable for the purpose. This had been their practice every year since the Boxer troubles—Reuter,
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