Word of the drowning, at Pootoo on July 5, of M. Jean Michaux, young French engineer and aviator, was ecelved in Shanghai on July The body Ins not yet been recovered.
Int, Michaux, who was 20 years old, arrived in Shanghai on June 22 in the s. Conte Verde and on July 3 went to Ningpo, with, other foreigners, to attend "the bridge opening. He was the guest Monseigneur Defebvre, the Vicar Apostolic, while at Ningpo, On Tuly 5 he went to Pootoo with some of the French missionaries spend the day on the beach. He ages Be only member of the party could swim and he went out into deep water lone. Soon his companions heard his cries for help fand they attempted to save him by throwing him a life-ring. He was submerged, however, before he could grasp it. Efforts to find the body on that afternoon proved butit Born at Champagnole, in the Jura mountains, M. Michaux studied en-Bineering " at' Ecole Centrale. He was a Lieutenant in the French aviation reserve and had done geodetic work in Africa,
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