Nanking, Dec. 27, A. sensation was caused in the capital to-day by the news that a high military officer attempted to commit suicide yesterday at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, According to. semi-oficial reports, Gen, Ssu Fan-ling, Chief-of-Star of the newly-organized Ist Army Corps, relumed to Nanking last month from the Northwest, via Peiping and Tientsin, Disturbed by the national crisis, shortly after four o'clock yesterday afternoon he went io the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and stabbed himself in the side with a dagger. He was still conscious when, nearly three hours later, he was found outside the main hall" of the Mausoleum by some (lends who were worried over his absence. He was immediately token to. the Central Hospital, where his Injuries were found to' be serious.
is, however, expected to recover, Gen. Ssu had with him a lengthy statement, addressed to the spirit of Dr, Sun Yat-sen, urging the Government leaders and the public to rise against external aggression, Gen, Feng Vu-hsiing, Gen, Hsu Yung-chung, chairman of the Shansi provincial "government, and other officials visited Gen, Ssu at the hospital this afternoon—Reuter,
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