MEDICAL announcement last night that Sir Hughe-Knatchbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador to China, should be up and about in six or seven weeks will cause intense relief far beyond the borders of this country in countless quarters where His Excellency's life must have} been despaired of when the first information of the shocking mishap was flashed through the air. Though grievously injured by an aerial machine-gun bullet which passed through his body on Thursday afternoon, when the Embassy cars were attacked on the road from Nanking, Sip, Hughe was yesterday able to see several visitors and read the cables which flooded to his bedside in the Country Hospital. A message of sympathy and good cheer from His Majesty King George VI was among the cables. ins H.MS. Defender, speeding from Peitaiho with" Lady Knatchbull-Hugessen, is expected in Shanghai this morning.
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