St. Luke's Hospital Destroyed What trouble there is has been' caused by the attempt of the sold-jets to get rid of their Mukden euro rency notes for local cash. The 'Tsinan exchange shops were carly alive to. their danger and closed their doors, announcing that they were keeping the foreign New Year holidays! The following incident] from Tsinan is well vouched for. A' soldier bought 10 cents' worth of beef and offered the butcher a $10} Mukden note in payment. The butcher pleaded inability to change such a large sum but the soldier ted and threatened to make trouble for the butcher. The latter tried to persuade the soldier to accept the beef as a present, but to no purpose. 'The became fierce until in deeper tacked the soldier and fatally'
ribbed him., A companion of the len brave rushed off to the rai Tokyo, Jan. 13.
St. Luke's International Hospital! was totally destroyed by fire to-day, including records and stores. The cause of the fire is unknown.
The hospital building was a temporary structure, and a strongish wind was blowing.
As far as can be ascertained at the moment there were no casualties, ind the 120 patients, including a few foreigners, were safely removed 19) an_gpen space behind the hospital.
The marines and staff of the Paymasters College in the neighbourhood are assisting the firemen.
Dr, Teusler, the Head of the St. Luke's International Hospital is) now returning to Japan from Amer-_ fea.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
Later. Two small isolation wards of the) mutes distance away, for and soon returned with an Meanwhile the butcher had fled leaving his shop quite deserted. The officer listened to the story of the encounter as told by the spectators. Pointing to the body of the dead soldier he asked whether the! butcher had killed him single handed. On being assured that this was So, he remarked "The man must have deserved his fate. Let it stop] at that!" and ordered that the body! be carried back to the station.
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