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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER
GIRL'S PERILOUS | SHORTAGE OF
JOURNEY
Hankow To Tsingtao
By Railway
How a lone girl braved the dan-
gers of a perilous train journey.
SAND
FOR BUILDING
ap country, and then a boat trip Building construction in the Co- to Shanghai, was related to a re-lony will come to a complete stand- presentatite of the North China still soon, if the shortage of sand Daily News when the s.s. Lee continues.
sang docked at the French Bund Contractors are to-day able to at 1.30, bringing on board. Miss buy only inferior sand, unfit for Rina Fox, the girl who made the building purposes.__- trip-
The Hong Kong Contractors
Miss Fox, who is to entertain at sociation, and Chinese contractors the Tower Night Club of the of the Calony, recently held a meet- Cathay Hotel, related her experi- ing when the situation was disenss- ences thus :
Led. It was then decided to draw
"I left Hankow on the fourteenth the attention of Government to the of this month. she stated and shortage
set off for Tsingtao by train to try The supply of sand is controlled and reach Shanghai. The first stop by the Government Special junks was Chengchew, where there was put out to sea and bring in the a passport examination. The off-sand which is afterwards sold to cials were all very courteous, but building contractors. they had to be particularly care . It was learned from the Direc ful as it was rumoured that spies tor of Public Works this morning were on the train. There was heavy that during the typhoon most of the rainfall at Chengchow and the sand-junks were lost or destroyed. station was thick with Chinese sol- The situation is, however, becoming diers with guns and supplies, pre- normal and contractors will soon be sumably on their way north to rein- able to get suficient supplies. force Taiyuanfu. At Chengchow I joined a party of two women, three men and a child. That made me feel more secure,
JAPANESE AIR RAIDS
FRAUDULENT CLAIM FOR WAR LOSS
Ship Not Torpedoed
Canz-
"From Chengchow, after sleep- ing at the station where there were sick and wounded soldiers, we Capt. Freeman Hatfield, a started off to Suchowin which ap-j dian skipper, has been found guilty peared to be a centre of great mili-of obtaining by false pretences the tary activity. Japanese planes ap-
sum of $14,255 as war reparations.... peared twice during the course of
He had claimed that the vessel the trip of Tsinanfu, and the train Gypsum Queen was torpedoed by a had to stop while the passengers
German submarine off the Irish sought shelter in near-by fields.
coast during the war, and on that basis collected That was the most exciting part | Further investigation showed that reparations. of the journey, and the most un-the vessel was abandoned in a pleasant, for when I got back to
the train after the second raid I
storm.o
The jury recommended Capt.
found my handbag and personal Hatfield to mercy,
property stolen, leaving me only
two dollars in cash, There was a
shortage of food during that part
of the trip which made it all the I found friends and they helped me more unpleasant.
out until money could be cabled "The last lap of the journey was to me, from Tsinan to Tsingtao and was "Never again will I take a trip most worrying, for when I arrived like that," she concluded, "It was in Tsingtao I had no money at all. far too exciting to be pleasant."
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