Nanking, May 12.
'A. report has been received here from' the British Vice-Consul Kaschgar that he had conversed at Chotan with the German explorers, Herren Pilehner and Haak, from whom nothing hed been heard for considerable time. Both are well, though Herr Filchner's nerves sulfered slightly in detention and. Herr Haak had just recovered from a bad cold. The authorities at Chotan give Passport diffeulties as grounds for their arrest. The German Embassy has sent a telegram to the Governor of Sinkiang at Urumshi requesting him to speed up the freeing of the German explorers—Trans-Ocesn.
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