Anxious to record the event for home newspapers an enthusiastic Photographer endeavoured to secure a fashlixht photograph of the crowd The result" was. rather disastrous. Mistaking the flash and report of the: magnesium flare for gunfire the crowd turned and fed down the hill belle smell, falling over each other in their [haste to escape from the guerillas whom, they supposed, were about 10 attack' them, The fear of an impending attack is perhaps not totally unjustified, for while inthe town itself everything quiet, there are frequent. reports of lashes in the nearby hills.
IL was probably a mere coincidence that H.MS, 'Dorsetshire' dropped an-char in ihe bay the morning after the anti-British incident. On Monday last a team of cricketers from the ship comfortably defeated an eleven from the Chefoo School, winning the match with several wickets still hand, Britons Narrow Bseape:
Mr, W, EH, Harle had a narrow escape from serious injury two days ago when he and some of the Mole Whar godown workmen were buried under a stack of bags of flour which suddenly collapsed, Tt was some minutes before they could be release bhut apart from bruises and shock tone Was seriously hurt, The Misses Tomkinson, residents in Chefoo for many years past, have decided to return to England, and are dug to sail for Dalton today, A local police report states that a bicycle with a dozen bottles of milk was recently stolen while left attended in one of the streets, The report does not indicate whether this was a case of deliberate sabotage by a rival milkman, or whether it was the result of the irresistible impulse of some thirsly Wayfarer suffering from the Jongcontinued drought, Germans Advised to Leave Hongkong Hongkong, Aug. 2
The Gewman Consulate here received structions this morning. 10 all Ger to colony.—United Press.
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