A. large, leathery elephant, pride of the Municipal Zoo in Wen Miao Road, Nantzo, and the wonder of Chinese country folk engaged in seeing the sights of the Big City, is now dead, having electrocuted himself accidentally on Monday, April 20. He was valued at over $4,000.
What actually happened is not quite ¢lear, but apparently the ele-it, in the early hours of the day, gripped hold of an electric power wire passing over the top of his cage and. tore it loose. When found By the attendants of the 200, it was 100. late for anything to be done, as the elephant was dead.
ON MAY 12
Sir Charles Little Making Nanking Visit First Admiral Sir Charles James Cole-brooke Little, new Commander-in-Chief of the British China Fleet, will arrive in Shanghai on board his flag ship H.MS. Kent on May 12 after a bret visit io Nanking.
Shanghai will have particular pleasure in welcoming him for Admira) Little was bora here, coming, from a well-known Shenghal_ family before he joined the Navy. Admiral Little, who relieved Admiral Sir Frederic Dreyer some months ajo, has been in southern waters since he assumed command and before coming, to Shanghai he will visit the capital, INS, Kent arriving at Woosung on her way up the Yangtze on May 5. INS. Kent will moor at the British naval buoys here on May 12.
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