His Excellency's first visitor yesterday, and, it can be imagined, a most wholeheartedly welcome one, was Lady Knatchbull-Hugessen, who had left her summer residence at Peitaiho on Thursday night, boarded H.M.S. Defender at 11 pin. and reached Shanghai about eight o'clock yesterday morning. Lady Knatchbullsiugersen went straight to her husband's bedside and later announced that she would like it to be known that the Ambassador, in his present condition, could see no visitors.
From hospital sources it was learn ed that yesterday had seen no diminution in the stream of cables and local messages of sympathy which had been keeping the messenger service busy since the first shocked receipt of news of the wounding, Officials who inspected the Ambassador's car yesterday were of the opinion that an genal machine-gun bullet had entered either through the window or the opened door of the car, had pierced Sir Hughe's body and then gone through the upholstery and emerged from the panel in the boot of the vehicle.
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