Believed Safe as Yet Hankow, June. 13, The exodus of Chinese from Kiukiang to Hankow and from Hankow to Ichang, which has been in progress during the past few days, has been intensified as a result of the Japanese announcement that a drive on Hankow along the Yangtze is commencing.
According to a foreign shipping firm, all their ships from Kiukiang were held yesterday afternoon at the Russian Orthodox Mission Church on Rue Paul Henry for the late Mr. Maxim Karpovich Karpoff. The deceased was employed as bodyguard for Mr. Cho-Sung, prominent Shanghai factory owner, and he was. killed by gunshot wounds on Friday morning near the Cathay Hotal when assassins attempted to take the life of his employer.
The deceased was a single man 36 years of age and has no family in Shanghai. His employer, Mr. Yue, is still in the Paulun Hospital receiving medical treatment for wot stained in the attempted assassination and was unable to be present at the services but other members of his family were in attendance.
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