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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 247, 6 July 1918, Page 7

Particulars of Iho. tragic death of I'lnmg Ling Soo, the magician, ni'o to land by a recent mail. While Chung fiing So'o and his assistants were doing i trick with guns at Wood Green Empire, North London, the conjurer was ihoti in the chest. He died in hospital i few hours later. Mr. V. Kamelaro, in in interview, said: "I was on the stage ivith two assistants wlio had guns which lie always fixed in his private room. On receiving the cue from him I-gave the order .to lire., Ho had a china plate ivit'i which he was supposed to deflect (he bullets. He usually staggered after the gunfire, and when he fell wo thought it was part, of the performance." It is said that ihere was a. mechanical trick by which the bullets placed in muzzleloading guns did not leave the muzzles wlw.i the guns were fired. An American, aged 5(1, of Scottish extraction, ttoo'f name was William Robinson. He iirst appeared in London in 1!I0(. "Reims is now a city of the dead. A year ago there were still 20,000 inhabt bints; in January, IWB, there were 011)3 5000. By April the city had been evacuated of'its civilian inhabitants, and tin municipality had moved to Paris. Th< population in August, 1011. was 11. r >,178 Before the city was evacuated the fa mous Eve of Ke'uns on the facade of tin cathedral was protected by being buit up.