Young Adventurers Kept at Hangchow Establishing a record for youths of the Settlement bent on. for conquest, the two Russian lads who took off from Shanghai on November 7 bound overland for Java, came a cropper at _Hangchow after completing 315 miles when they ran into the arms of the Rev. E. LIH. Clayton and are now being held awaiting an escort to bring them back home, much to their own disgust but the great relief of their anxious parents who were not taken into the confidences. of the young Marco Poles.
They left Shanghai on bicycles and of the whole progress up to the time of interruption was accomplished astride the machines they have established cle a worthy example of endurance for boys of 14 years.
But that belief is doubted by those companions who kno the lads best and were "in" on th tip to Java, and as both are known to be not given to the ritual modes of procedure, it is possible that the Dieycles were discarded early in the trip when a more easy method of travel appeared.
In any event the parents Masters A. Lehman and Gutbezah] are resting much easier than they have been in several days and if the students of the Thomas Hanbury School for Boys where. both attended show a certain falling off in interest in the more quiet subjects when the youths return, investigation will doubtless show a greatly increated knowledge on a trip of discovery through Southern China
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