Shanghai, June 11.
A. young Chinese was hard at work inflating the tyre of a motor cor near the intersection of Avenue. Edward VII and Szechuen Road a few minutes before 8 o'clock last night, when suddenly there was an explosion. The nearest police men arrived at the double, seeing a man lying unconscious on the ground and thinking that 9 bomb had been thrown.
A hasty examination, however, showed that it was merely an fever-inflated tyre which had burst under the strain. The man was rushed to hospital, where he was found to be suffering from a fractured skull, and Baronne de Oxholm, the Swedish 'Minister to China and Baronne Beck Tris, the Swiss charge d'affaires, the [counsellor of the French Embasty to China and Mme. F. 'Knobel, the French Acting Consul Generai_and Mime. P. Auge, Admiral 'H. Yarnell, commander of' the US. naval forces in the Far Bast, Maj.-Gen, Telter-'Smollett, commander of the British military' forees, in Shanghai, "Rear-Admiral Nomura, and many others.
The flagship was specially decorated for. that occasion, and a. temporary spelt of good weather contributed {o the success of this reception which lasted well into the night.
It is announced that the Vice-Admiral "Lo Bigot sails today. for Nanking and Wuhu in the. Prench gunboat Dumont d'Urville,—which Jarrived on June 18. Capt. Gribelin commander of the cruiser Lamotte] Picquet is in charge of the local French Naval Station during the} Vice-Admiral's absence.
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