Hankow, Sept. 9.
Considerable anxiety is felt here over the safety of Mr. G. H. Charlton, a Briton former member of the Cambridge Trial Eights, who has been missing in the Kiukiang area for several weeks.
Mr. Charlton, who was at one time an employee of the Asiatic Petroleum Company. recently settled in the interior and started a small hótel at Lienhwatung, in the Lushan Mountains south of Kiukiang.
After the Japanese capture of Lienhwatung, " Mr. Charlton visited Kuling in order to obtain supplies.
The journey necessitated his crossing both the Japanese and the Chinese lines, but with the aid of the Union Jack mounted gri a stick, which he carried over his shoulder, he reached Kuling safely.
Shortly afterwards, he set out on the return journey, still carrying the stick.
He is reported to have been seized by the Japanese and ordered to proceed to Kiukiang.
Nothing has been heard of him since, and the British authorities have no knowledge of his arrival at Kiukiang.
An advertisement of Mr. Charlton's hotel, reading "Above the heat and below the clouds" is still running in. the Hankow papers.—Reuter.
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