in Japan Osaka, Oct. 11.
The papers claim an' authoritative source for the statement that the Government intends to include proposals for the extension of the franchise as a plank of its political platform.—Reuter.
Shih-ying, _a Chinese who was arrested by the local. native police at the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Station several weeks ago, has been executed at Nanking, whither he was sent following his arrest on a charge of attempted insurrection, says "Shunpao."? Wu is alleged to have issued a statement to the effect that Dr. Sun Yat-sen had appointed him Commander-in-Chief of the Yangtze forces, with instructions to start uprisings first in north Kiangsu and later along the Yangtze.
Mr. Alister Duncan, who returned from Japan by the President Jackson, is now lying in hospital. He states that he has been in five emergency hospitals, was twice gazetted og dead in the "Kobe Chronicle' and sends us an account of his terrible experiences during the Yokohama earthquake, from which we cull the following extract "T have suffered terribly in the lower limbs and feet from rheumatism and had to go into hospital at once when I got to Yokohama.. I have been in hospitals ever since until I was smothered by the roof of the hospital—from which my Chinese boy extricate ed me and thus saved my life. Then and the other patients had the time of our lives trying to avoid the fire which was raging all round us.
T had a terrible shake-up for a man of my age (67) who had been on his back for Iwé months already, but am much improved here but weaker.
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