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CHOLERA RAVAGING THE STORY OF A CHEKÄ VICTIM.
.CITY.
THE RECENT FIGHTING.
NANKING, September 10th. In the municipality work is go- ing on as usual: street building, on which large numbers are em- ployed, and street cleaning, and now an effort is being made to get rid of the corpses of cholera ric tims. The epidemie, which" is ravaging the City at present, is vertainly levying a heavier soll on the vivilians and soldiers than did
the Battle of Lungtau. It was s common sight to go into any com pound a few days ago, and see dead and dying lying together, in enses the dead being there several days.
some
Visiting the Consulate there one day, of the sokliers posted there as guards, ten were counted dead or dying, and one of the men there said about fifty of the guard had already died. from one house, *.
Imagine it, fifty
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FRIEND OF TUAN" CHI JUL
IS HE DEAD!
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The Pictorial Werkly, a Chincar illustrated newspaper, the last A TEX MONTHS TRAMP TO issue of which appeared on Satur
day, September 10th, contained an item of information under the heading of Frem Our Tientsin Correspondent. announcing the Canton Insurance death of the former Chief Exceu-China Underwriters....$1; now,
North China Ina.
143 nom. tive, Tuan Chi Jul. The iteia read
Onica as follows:-
Yangtze insurance......AL. 849 bay. China Fies lunurnace...210 buy. Hong Kong Fire Ina......3600 sel Douglases Steamboats.
Kong Tugs
i.
PERING, Sept 2nd. Michael Russin, 83, Cheka vietim,
was discharged from the P.C.M.C. this week, uncurcil, incurable, Soon he will die of tuberculosis, because his body no longer is equal to fight- ng off the army of destroyers, weakened as it is after his ten- months' walk from Siberia to
Hong
Since his retirement, Tean Chi Jui has lived a secluded life in Tientsin. He passes his days drinking and writing poems,
One day last month he had a Indo-Chines (Pref.).
Da (Def.) slight ailment and was attended by relatives and friends."
Shell Transports At least the and nowa is held up
Bitar Ferrios Peking, after the one until the last monent. Ce first Chins Sugars Waterboat.... prison and after the mental shock gains the impression that Tuan is Malabon Sugare of seeing his father and mother but still living in retirement. chered before his eyes by prison drinks and write poems day after Kailan Mining Ad..... guardi
After completing the heartbreak-day. Well, it is well that at last Langkas (combined)... ing task of walking from the Ura of the living. He can even bend Sha Explorations
the old fellow is still in the land Do. (single) Mountains on meagre rations, and his elbow still... That's goo
Shanghai sometimes no rations at all" a jaunt that ended last June, Michael Russin found starvation mocking him in the Chinese capital which had been pictured to him as the haven for Russian Whites.
He Besgusts
No-not so good. For reading on we and that the Honourable Tuan ais. He nila? From what? Oh, Pooh no- only a slight ailment. thing at all.
Nothing? Well, why the dac- tors
Doctors? Who said doctors? Why, our Tientsin, correspondent.. What's the matter with Tuan
Oh, he's only dead. latives and friends present.
Dead? Yes, and buried, and re-
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He enlisted in the Shantung Tupan's army, went to fight the Nationalists, won A medal for bravery, and collapsed about ten Furopeans Carry Oh.
days ago, a elimax to a series of Getting on to a pleasanter topic, struggles with a disease that in- just a hundred yards away one him back to Peking for treatment vaded his lungs. Officers brought looks over the fence and sees Mr.
at the P.U.M.C., and when doctors Ritchie, the Postal Commissioner, tapped and probed the neighbour- and his only foreign assistant, hood of his lungs they found very little left to keep him alive. Hope with perhaps a couple of friends, was gone and the soldier was sent reported in the large papers, this As this event has not yet been blowing in from Lord knows back to barracks. Friends there information may be incorrect. As where, fighting out a set of tennis, are endeavouring to hide his plight the letter was written in a convine- from commanders of Wang Chi's with ecol-looking bottles and glasses Russian garrison, for if it is known ing manner; however, this article is Peak Trams (old),
And that's not all. On top of this the editor adds a foot-note, as follows:
published pending verification. Shanghai Times,
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on a table near-by, while haing the he will be discharged, and his ulti- outside wall anything up to
amate death will be all the more hundred soldiers watching the that he now enjoys.
tragic, without the few necessities
game, passing comic and possibly
Never To See Family. caustic remarks on the play, just
Back in Russia Michael has a as keenly interested, as the players wife and two children, but he does themselves. These gentlemen, with not write to them to convey what-
Lio. ever of hope springs in his wither. their tennis of an afternoon, saving breast he does not know the ing face and carrying on," asdoctors have given him up." though nothing untoward was for send them a letter is dangerous, as ward, certainly deserve
the local Soviet then would assume the woman was conspiring against credit, as no one but themselves, the state, or at least had some anti- fancy, fally realizes the tremendous Bolshevik sympathies, and then her difficulties under which they must condition world be oven..
miserable, tha It is how. have been working, possibly trying A few friends are interesting themselves in the tragic case,
Never Changed Clothing.
(combined)...
(old) After that they kicked him back! to the cell and left him there. Fort
(LOW). more than year he remained China Lights (comb.)... ..312] buy.
Do. (old) ... nom. Prisoner, and his neighbours grew rigours of the climate of that lewer and fever, owing to the
China Provideats Constructions place. In the winter his walls were ice covered. In the summer the place wna over-run with vermin. fo all that time he had no change of clothing.
tvery
To
more
The term of his sentence was ten years, but nobody ever lived that length of time in Cheliabinsk. · It same about, however, that some of
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to chey two masters, and a popula through the good cffices of the prison guards heard that be United Asbestos
tion at war surrounding them,
W. J. Willis, head of the social department of the P.U.M.C., and something may be accomplished to show the wanderes this corner of the world. that sympathy is not yet barren in
The three week's bombardment of service Nanking and Hsiakwan. by the Northerners, caused very
little real damage to the buildings, and one wonders where all the shells could get to as it is the exception to find a building damaged to any extent.
since
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..$3.70 sal.
new something about theatricals, Walone (old) and especially that in the home Wm. Fowalls village, before the passing of the Telephones tsars, he was wont to play the bay-buyers; sal-allory; pales buffcom, the Russian version of Chaplin, Humour was what they wanted, and he was instructed to "do his stuff.”
"
Mutiny Starts Trouble. Although there had been untold Death's Head Humour, misery in the Russian family ever Russin's shadow stalked on the the revolution in Russia, stage, and he says the sort of things did not intensify until 1999 humour e presented must have The Battle Of Lungtan.
when the Petropavlovsk mutiny beea peculiarly suited to
the On A reference must be made to the against Soviet terrorism took place guards, humour linked with battle of Lungtan brought to a sucand a great round-up of suspects tragedy, a sort of death's-head grin cessful issue by the Nationalist ensued. Some 2,500 persons were showing through the efforts be General Ho with his commanders arrested, including 500 men, among made to use the audience. In and troops. Certainly if the cus them Russin and his parents. The return for his efforts he was allow tom is followed here of inscribing little army was accused of comed to walk around the grounds, battle honours en regimental ban- plicity in arevalt that brought and thus got into touch with some ners, there are several divisions about the capture of a whole Soviet railway workera, bailding a track who well deserve all credit. "Can military train and the disappear into the penitentiary. one imagine and credit these troops ance of a big store of rifles, am- The great problem was not only advancing across rice fields knee munition and machine guns. The to make a dash for Eberty but to deep in mud and water in the face Cheka was turned loose on the cap-have Soviet papers, identification of withering machine-gun fire and tives with instructions to shake documents without which he could finally successfully engaging the confessions from them as to where not hope to make his way about enemy with the bayonet, having the loot was hidden. to defend themselves then from Northern counterattack, driven
Harded To Prison.
home by the bayonet. Yet incidente To a special prison at a place like this were occurring during called Cheliabinsk the prisoners these five days at Lungtan to such were herded and then commenced
an extent that to-day one can smell regime of terrorism which, by the battlefield miles before reaching this time, bas "taker immense toli it. Great progress has been made in life and suffering. cleaning up, yet much remains to be done.
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ON BANGICI.—On demand ........ 941 morning with the butts of their conjectured, says Russin, from SOVEREIGN, Bank's Baying rate $9,80 while the son stood near by, their state. None was allowed to GOLD LAZY 100 fine, per Luotiza kled and pless. Then they keep the grain he raised, but, had turned their attention to him to turn in the lot and get his divi- Bread and water was his diet for sion. back from the district com month, but he didn't tell what he missar. Heavier taxation than didn't knowOften, to vary the they ever knew in the Imperial proceedings, guards entered his days was their lot. Cows werd cell and beat him into unconscious taxed as a luxury, Windows, mir- rors," horses, hens, armchairs and such things that were not proper in a truly happy social state, all were penalized.
Month Of Privation.
It is understood that Mesars Higgs and Hill, Crown Works, South Labeth-rond, have secured the contract for the erection on the s Metropolitan Railway Baker-street | Station site of a building which will cover about two acres, be about 100ft. high, and have frontages to Russin said this was allowed to
Torture Time At Night, Torture time was after 11 at night and before 3 in the morning.
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Canal presented the remarkable ensuring that the money- and the rest will be devoted to of it, had a most compelling effect the refugee, but with all its prive spectacle at the Harton aqueduct they spend on Advertising shops, offices, and flats. An unoff upon the prisoners. It was known, tions it was far preferable to the when a mishap, which nearly caus cial but expert estimate of the cost moreover, by the sounds that torture of prison life, Peasants of ed two coal barges to be engulfed, will bring them the best places it in the neighbourhood of penetrated to the rows of little Russia, of Mongolia, of Mac occurred. The aqueduct carries the £750,000."
cells from the caverns beneath the thuria, of China were found pretty Bridgewater Canal across the Man- possible return. Work will be begun almost im prison house
much alike, touched by his plight chester Ship Canal. When a steamer
Telephone Central 30. In due course Russia's turn came, and willing to give a share of the on the Ship Canal wishes to pass the
the largest alcel-framed buildings
mediately-on-what-will-be-one-The guards" considerately helped little they had. One by one Rusaqueduct "awings, cutting off the in London. Over 8,000 tons of steel hirm to his feet, because he was very in's companions dropped away, Bridgewater Canal on either bank, will be used, and this part of the weak. They supported him down leaving him alone by the time the and enclosing the water above the work has been entrusted to Messrs the steps to the dungeon one night. frontier of Siberin was crossed and Ship Canal in a huge tank. The Lambourne and Co., Victoria A zort of head jailer told him Michael dropped on his knees to swing bridge is about 40ft, above ovER HALF & CENTURY REPUTATION street.
Some of the large single curtly to divulge all he knew, offer thanks for deliverance the Ship Canal. By some means
· girders will weigh filty tons, and get “Eo the irons were heated Now comes another cross in his the aqueduct, which has been un Da LECLERC'S DIVINIT
in the braziers and one was held life. Although he clings to hope der repair, swung open without GIRANG, ORIGEN, DOU, SHE ONE to facilitate the handling of such weights, as well as to afford an on his back. After a little time with all of a consumptive's tean warning before the sluice gates easy means of bringing other the same thing was done to the city, friends and sympathizers were closed The water in the Sons
other side, and Rusnih told materials right to the centre of the nothing. beanid he knee sense the early approach of a rest swing bridge, estimated to weigh work the Metropolitan Railway
that Michael Russin has not known 1,000 tons and aft. in depth, pour Co. are constructing
for a long, long time.-Hankowed into the Ship Canal below like special nothing to tell. siding.
(Dontîmied in next Column.)
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