Lieutenant-Colonel Hermann Kriebel, the new German Consul-General at Shanghai, arrived here on Thursday morning in the Hamburg-Amerika Hiner, Duisburg, and was welcomed by a large group of German residents. Shortly after his arrival, he proceeded to the German Consulate in Whangpoo Road.
Formerly military adviser to the Chinese Government at Nanking, the new Consul-General will renew many acquaintances in China, Lieutenant-Colonel Knobel rose to prominence as a staff officer in the Police Constable was prostrated at 645 pam. after the intense heat during the day. She was conveyed to the Sacred Heart Hospital where it] {is reported that her condition is not serious, Evening Brings Crow:
As evening approached, an_on. looker with a capricious eye must have watched with amazement the sudden appearance of hundreds of thousands of the Chinese population fon the streets. It must have appeared like the blossoming strange plant, as they sought relief front the day's heat in the coolness of the evening breezes which swevt down the streets. Especially in the neighbourhood of tall buildings, the pavements were crowded as hundreds squatted in the winds which sweep around these edifices at all times.
The Bund foreshore presented an animated appearance until a late hour as hundreds of people strolled in the fresh air from the river, or lay on the grass, content to lie still and breathe freely. When time for sleep arrived many—_hundreds were seen preparing to spend the night asleep on doorsteps or in alleyways away from the feet of passers-by. It might have been the hottest day of July or August and not in the balmy month of June,
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