Mme. Gastaud, who, as related in my last letter, was shot by her husband's mistress, Lady Owen, is such a condition that her recovery is doubtful. Only one of the five: bullets fired by Lady Owen penetrated the body, and, though the bullet has been extracted, the wound is of a dangerous kind. Before the shooting, Mme. Gastaud had seen Lady Owen only once, at her husband's private hospital, and had never exchanged a word with he but both women were quite aware of the situation, When Dr. Gastaud and Lady Owen were confronted yesterday in the presence of the Versailles istrate who ig making the preliminary investigation of the affair, the doctor said he told Lady Ower more than once that he was afraid On the property question, counsel for the Due de Casse-Brissac mentioned various instances of eccentricity on the part of the princess, such as imagining herself to be dying and sending in hot haste for her children when she was perfectly well, cultivating an inordinate fondness for animals, including dogs, donkeys and gamecocks, refusing to let anyone sleep in a room immediately under or above her own, and so on, He also said that abe had mortgaged everything she could, and last year spent considerably ' more thin her income of £8,500, People have been known to do much more than all this without. being regarded as ripe for control, Several life-long friends of the princess declared her to be of perfectly sound mind, but the court, preferring to have skilled and in: dependent testimony, appointed three medical men to'examine her mental condition and report on it, The court will then decide if to be placed under. financial restraint, like an extravagant young "fils de famille," at the age of 73, Tue Greek Government has sent a telegram the Chinese Govern ment, intimating its desire to send a diplomatic representative te Nane king and requesting the Chinese Government to give its consent in this connection. The Waichiaopy has referred this matter to the Administrative Yuan, according to the native press, his wife would try to kill her, to Lady Owen replied that, if that were 40, she, herself, would be tthe first to shoot.' He repeated this to his wife and begged her to keep out of the way if Lady Owen called fat the house. While Dr. Gastaud China's Greatest
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.