Shanghai, Apr. 11.
'A male Chinese was' lying in' a serious condition in St. Luke's Hospital, Kiukiang Road, yesterday Tesult of being struck by a Japanese military lorry in Yangtszepoo Road, near Jansen Road. It is reported the lorry failed to stop after the accident.
The mishap occurred shortly before 8 am, as the car was westbound in "Yangtszepoo Road. The Chinese, who was om foot, was knock: ed down and seriously injured, one being broken above the knee and. one wrist being fractured. A Fire Brignde ambulance conveyed the victim. to hospital.
An Talian was taken to the Country Hospital shortly after midnight Saturday from the intersection of Chengtu and Weihaiwei Roads. He! had been injured in a collision between two motor-cars.
"With Especial Awe It in St. Petersburg a prominent figure knew French and' German, that was, taken as a matter of course: but if he could also explain himself in English, everyone regarded him with special awe. Tt is a moot point whether the famous member of Parliament, Mfr. 'V. D. Nabokov, earned more fame as a prominent jurist or og a man who could speak English "ike "an Englishman." describing his "meeting with Leo Tolstoy in 1902, A. Kuprin waxes especially enthusiastic over the fact that Tolstoy spoke Auently—and with that same Oxford accent—with a group of Englishmen who recognized and approached him on a ship Crimea. twas" well-known Russia that Emperor Nicholas Ti and Empress Alexandra, niece of Queen Victoria, corresponded in English. NO wonder," then, that when in 1914 Russia and England became brothers arms, in Moscow and St. Pelers-burg the most" popular of all the Four Lose Lives Shanghai, Apr. 6.
Overcome by fumes, three men and woman lost their lives in a furnace room behind Messrs, Kelly & Walsh, Ltd, 60 Nanking Road early: yester. day' morning, 'The four bodies were found at about 6 am., when another Chinese exiled on' them. Conveyed to the Lester Chinese Hospital. they were certified to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Included in the four Chinese were a carpenter and a watchman employ there, the remaining two, elderly woman and man, being their relatives who sought sheller in the small' room, As far as could be ascertained, the furnace ceased functioning at about inid-day. The four Chinese went to bed at about 9 pin. Contrary to strict orders by the management, they shut the door and windows, 1 sulting in the tragedy.
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