Nanking, Apr. 26.
'The list of 25 students' who passed the recent competitive examination for postgraduate scholarships in Britain offered by the Board of Teusloes for the Administration of the British Boxer Indemnity Refund oMfefally announced as follows '18 SUM ut Large Apr, 30.
Up 10 noon to-day 73 of the 500 drug addicts and beggars who escaped after the outbreak of the fire at the 'Wan Shou Ssu or the Temple of Ten 'T.ousand Longevities yesterday morn ug, were still gt large. Of these 65 are' drug addicts and the rest beggars.
There were 508 drug addicts and 290 beggars on the premises when the fire broke out. These Included 72 women.
Reports were current yesterday that a number of addicts and beggars had been burned, to death but this turned ut to be groundless as the clearance of the debris this miming failed to Feveal the remains of any charred human being.
First estimates of the damage done tung. to property by the fire appear to have been a bit exaggerated. A
Pas remi-offi statement says that the Of the 25 students selected, six are usaduates of the National ' Central University: four of the Chiaotung loss Is estimated at between $50,000 and $00,000, General Chin Teh-chin, the Mayor of Peiping, his ordered an official inquiry into the cause of the fire, He deplores the destruction of the Wan Shou-Keh, considered one of the finest Duildings in the Temple, and doubts University: three of the National "wing hua' University; two of the Nanal Peiping University, and one euch of Yenching University, the National Peiping Normal University, clang University, Nanking Unlsity, the University of Shanghai, whether it can be rebuilt in the Immediate future in view of the financial stringency of the Munl= cipality—Reuter,
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