The River Police hat a queer ely given to them on August 331, when they were asked by the French Police to search for a 12-year old boy who had run away from home. His mother became alarmed afte he had been missing for nearly day, having left the- house at pam, on August 90, and reported the police.
Vadin Gravetsky, the boy, has 8 of the sea for some time, and his one idea hus been to become a sailor. Me had and this greatly increased his pax-sion for the wen, All this was tole to the police, who iunmediately. en: listed the aid of the river police.
On September 1 Vadin was found, He was in a sampan, down the Whangpoo, and on the Pootung of the In the sampan with him were two other young Russians of his own age.
Vadin's idea was to go to Tsingtao in the sampan. Having once been there, he was sure he know the way. Be himself with a map, and for provisions had a sack of several bottles of dri n of the vessel, he and his crew set off, but found' it met so easy a task they had imagined, When questioned by the police, the Ind showed a remarkable knowledge of the exports of Jules Verne, and showed confidence in being able to emulate this remarkable adventure er. Vadin comes of a seafaring family, and his uncle was an officer in the Russian navy.
It was not long before he was restored to his anxious mother, while the other lads, as soon as their legs touched the shore, made off as fast as they could in the directions of their own homes.
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