Hongkong, Sept, 21.
The cholera epidemic in Hongkong, which is growing more serious, claimed its firstgEuropean victim today when Mr, Alfred Hicks, Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph" and correspondent for the United Press and the "Daily Mail," succumbed to the feaded disease.
Fifty-four years of age, Mr, Hicks was a native of Truro, Cornwall, and had been nearly 30 years in the Far East. He has a brother in Shanghai, Mr. S. J. Hicks, of Messrs. Arts and
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