While swimming near the Minghong Beach at' Whangpoo, on August 15, Mr, Michael Che-rev ko, aged 19° years, suddenly was taken ill in the water and b fore aid could reach him w ried away by the current drowned. At the time of the neclident the young man was accompanied by two Russian friends who swam with him beyond the safety fine, although the water was not very deep at this point. Help was summoned immediately and boats searched the river below where the young man was last seen but his body was, not recovered. Inasmuch Jas Mr, Cherovko has suffered from heart "trouble for a considerable period and had been in a serloug condition lately, it is believed that jan attack overcome him while in the water, He was employeft: by Russian cafe in Shanghai.
Tae famous Kang Vu-wei library in Tsingtao is reported to have been purchased by the Shantung auth-ferities for $60,000, The Into Mr. Kang: Vu-wei was one of China's most distinguished scholars and an ardent monarchist. He was sponsible for a reform movement 30 years ago which resulted in: his exile. "His library is said to have been one of the most valuable pri-vote libraries in this country, cer. The woman's hands were left free, but a strong guard of uniformed gendarmes surrounded her on the brief walk to the waiting "train, Noulens was haggard and unkempt, due to his long incarceration in the Amoy Road Gaol; the woman's shoes had evidently' not been polished since the day of her arrest and her hat and two-piece dress were sadly ¢rumpled and discoloured. Placed in a third-class carriage, with. its full distance between them, stared impassively at the scores faces that pressed against the windows, which were tightly closed despite the heat.
Shortly before the train left; they commenced an animated con: versation in, French and Germ obviously. relating the experiences since their separation. The gendarmes detectives asked them in. Chinese to refrain from speaking, but their professed: ignorance of that lan> guage and the absence of any offi: 1 cial who could speak English or any other of the "seven tongues with which they are known to be acquainted caused the command to fall on deaf ears. They were still talking when the.train drew out of the station,
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