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Show FLOATING MINES A MENACE Several Vessels Already Lost in the China Sea. VICTORIA, B. C., Nov, S SUirner Pl'lfl-i-f. which rrld todnv rroia N'wotiwanf ahd Thntjiln. had a l. Arrow "rnp from destruction by a float Ing mine D'-ar NrRrhwanf on Oeto- i bei- OtrlctT of the JMeladej report that flr.atlntr mlnn are nnwr a Kreat menur In the China na. arel vrnl icmfh have been lost to date nr a result of them. Hsieho Lost Fifteen. The IMIeho rn unk n 'Say hefOie the Pleiades Pleia-des pasKl tho mine Th!s ftfumu ulniek a mine -when off the Shantunic . east near Wel-balw-l There were two forclen iaeneer ond both wer among the mirvivora of 110 persona per-sona who were o boer'i Fifteen wre drown.xl. Th steamrt hlnhua rm-uel atxty-i atxty-i RllH triple Messrs Mauchau an.-l Mulr. engineer- who were rtsldtntn of Shanghai, weru among the dl OH Ncwo was brought by the pcimlen that Admiral Ad-miral NehugatotT when lntereved at Hongkong, Hong-kong, en route to f-urvpe. stated he would not go to Russia, but proposed . Instead to go to Krance and subbequenlly to the L'nlted Stales. Wu Loses Heating. W'u Tlog Fang formerly Chinese Minister I to the United Stotes Is reported to hao lost I his hearing permanently as a result of the bomb outrage at Peking on the occislon of the departure of tho Chinese commlscloner. to foreign countries |