Request for Government Aid Poking, July 1.
Admiral Sah Chen-ping, Civil Governor of Fukien, has telegraphed to the Government suggesting that Government assistance should be floods in Fukien. The Cabinet re-given to sufferers from the recent ferred the matter to the President and it is expected that a mandate will shortly be issued announcing the relief to be given.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
A daring robbery occurred on the Tientsin-Peking train at Fengtai yesterday afternoon. Colonel Ho, Staff Officer serving under Gen. Li En-kuei, was bringing money to Peking for'his chief from Tsinanfu. Just as the train was leaving Fengtai two ex-soldiers, who had travelled on the same train from Tsinanfu, rushed into the Colonel's coupe, grabbed some bags containing $500 in silver and jumped off the train. The train was quickly topped and the robbers were followed and captured by Colonel Ho and some police—Reuter's Pa Service.
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