The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-08-11 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDER OF A FRENCH EXPLORER  OHISKINI APOLOGY TO PRAMOZ.  The PariaTicat7o:o-11-0;100;1-ti;ai-111311tralla de Rhine, the well.k•own French explorer' who was a former companion of M. de Beaus in Africa, has been murdered in Thibet. His body was thrown into • river. A companion escaped. The French ambassador at Pekin addressed a protest to the Tsung-li•Yamen demanding that M. Dutreuil's body should be recovered, and that his papers should be delivered up. The Chinese Charg6 d'Affaires addressed the following letter to M. Hanotaux, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in regard to the murder of M. Dutreuil de Rhin:: in Thibet  "Pnris, Aug. 8, 1894. "By a telegram, dated the 3rd instant, the Tsung•li•Yamen charges me to oonvey to your Exoellency its most profound regret for the death of M. Dutreuil de Rhin*, which has just been communicated to it in the following terms through the intermediary of the Governor-Generalof Chensi'Condon : 'I learn that M. Mitred! de Mina, who started from the interior of Thibet in the month of March 1894 for Oi-Ning, a village situated in the mountains, arrived on July 4 last among a Thibetan tribe named the Red Hoods. He wished to make use of the horses belonging to this tribe, and an altercation arising, M. Dutreuil de Rhine was seized by the tribesmen who had surrounded him, bound with cords, and then thrown into a river called the Tung-Tien where he was drowned. An Inquiry into the aftai; was immediately instituted.' The Imperial Government, on receipt of this news, telegraphed instructions to the Governor-General to have the river searched for the body, and to inliot oondign punishment on the murderers. At the same time he was enjoined to lend every assistance to the fellow•travellers of the scientist and to preserve the notes, sketches and collections which he had made at the cost of so much labour and devotion. The Imperial Government has likewise instructed me to request your Excellency to convey the expression of its deep regret to the family of M. Dutreuil de Rhine. The Tstun-li• Yemen further desires to come to an understanding with the Republic in order to lessen the misfortune which the latter has just sustained."  The French pedestrian Orandint who, it is said, has walked over 8,000 miles in America and Europe, is about to embark for Africa, where he intends to endeavour to walk from Oran to Timbuotoo, crossing the dreaded Sahara on the way. He will be accompanied by • party of 10 picked non•oommissioned officers representing both services.  From Breslau, the capital of Silesia, it is stated that two oases of leprosy have Natured in a hospital there. Both patients are workmen from the district of Memel, in Eastern Prussia. The sanitary board have taken all precautions to prevent the spread of the disease. The Ragnvald Jan, the steamer in which Mr. Wellman's Arctic expedition sailed to Spitsbergen, has been crushed in the ice and loot. This (marred fear days after the sledging party had left the vessel. Captain Bottolfsen and three sailors have returned to Norway in a fishing vessel, having made their way from the scene of the disaster to the south of the island in one of the aluminium boats. Mr. Wellman and his comrades are all well, and are oontinuing their explorations. T. R. Stevenson, a young of6oer in the 93rd Highlanders, has just died at Birkenhead under remarkable oiroumstanoes. Two months ago, while on service with the regiment in India he woe bitten by a dog whioh he stopped to pat. As it was afterwards found the dog_ was mad Lieutenant Stevenson was meat off to Pasteur's Institute in Paris. He returned heme to Birkenhead a fortnight ago apparently eared and in robust health. On Monday he was taken ill again and died three days later from • peculiar form of hydrophobia, the throat alone being affected.