THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 17, 1938.
FOREIGNERS
AND
BOMBED
MACHINE-GUNNED
American Woman Missionary Struck By Splinters
JAPANESE ATTACK ON
YELLOW
RIVER
ORAFT
Hankow, To-day.
Several American and Australian women, belong- ing to the Independent Gospel Boat Mission, who are engaged on relief work among desti- tute Chinese war refugees along the Yellow River, had a narrow escape from serious in- jury or death when Japanese planes bombed their boats, according to reliable foreign re- ports received here yesterday from Kaifeng. Miss Helen Bailey, of North Carolina, who was for- merly connected with the Southern Presby- terian Mission, received five slight wounds from bomb splinters, while two she-goats be- longing to her party were killed.
RESCUE PLANE'S TRIUMPH
Moscow, To-day.
A plane from the ice breaker Murman has landed on the ice floe camp of the four marooned Soviet Polar scientista.
The plane expects to take them off at any moment.-Reuter.
AMERICAN MANHANDLING PROTEST
W
Shanghai, To-day. James Edward Walsh, an American from Ripon, Wis- consin, complained yester- day evening, to the United States Consulate-General against manhandling in Hongkew by a Japanese naval officer, who, he said, forced him to sweep the floor of the patrol station, stamp- ed on the charred remains of an American flag and be- laboured him with a rubber hose
The women
Betty Lee, one of the perform- ers in Mr. George. Goncharoff's dancing display at the King's Theatre on March 10.
had a terrifying LABOUR WINS
time, for the planes swooper down directly overhead, unload- ed their bombs, and then opened machine-gun fire.
"
IPSWICH
Chinese helpers are alleged to have been machine-gunned as they fled to
London, To-day. - nearby trenches, but none was hurt. Ipswich surprisingly went over Miss Bailey and her companions to Labour when a Conservative are among a large band of Euro-majority of 7,250 at the General pean and
turned into an op- American missionaries Election was who are risking death in the war position majority of 3,161 at the zones to carry out their work. |by-election yesterday.
During the present week, 22 air The by-election, rendered neces-
by the elevation to raid, warnings have been sounded at sary
the Kaifeng, but hitherto the Japanese Peerage of the Conservative mem- planes have not attacked the city,ber, Sir John Ganzoni, resulted ag although they bombed points nearby, follows:
-Reuter.
NO POPULAR REPRESENTATION IN STRAITS
London, To-day.
Asked in the Commons if the Government were prepared to re-
BRITISH
DETECTIVE
SAVES
NEWSREEL WONG
Shanghai, To-day. Intervention
of an English member of the International Settlement police, Detective Sub- Inspector A. G. Tilton, saved the famous Chinese cameraman, “Newsreel” Wong, from being seized and taken to Hongkew for punishment on a charge of hay- ing engaged in anti-Japanese ac- tivities.
Japanese gendarmes. in plain clothes telephoned to the Central Police Station on Tuesday, say- ing they expected to find the leader of an anti-Japanese group outside a business office in the central district.
Sub-Inspector Tilton arrived to to see "Newsreel" Wong, with one hand on his pistol, ready to fight for his life against three Japanese clothes who gendarmes in plain were closing in on him.
Sub-Inspector Tilton intervened and Wong surrendered peacefully when he realised he would be taken to Central Police Station and not summarily handed over to the Japanese authorities.
DECOYED
It is alleged that Wong was de Mr. R. R. Stokes (Lab)
27,604 coved to the scene of the arrest by Mr. H. U. Willink (Nat. Con)..24,443 two Japanese who posed as would-
Labour Majority
3,161 be buyers of a camera.
The figures at the General Election were:~~
Sir John Ganzoni (Con) Mr. R. F. Jackson (Lab)
Conservative Majority
Wong was held at Central Police 28,628 Station, but on lack of evidence of 21,278|his anti-Japanese activities, was
7,250 released after eight hours. -Reuter.
Wong is in the bad books of the Japanese for having taken pictures considered detrimental to the a
MR. DE VALERA Japanese, especially one showing
vise the constitution of the Legisla GOING TO LONDON
tive Council of the Straits Settle- ments to make it more representa-
London, To-day.
wounded baby midst the wreckage of the South Station at Shanghai after the station had been bombed by Japanese planes. Reuter,
tive of the inhabitants, the Colonial The Prime Minister announced Secretary said he was not aware of in the Commons the resumption detailed examination of a num- a need or a desire for any wider of meetings between Ministers ber of points by officials of the representation in the Legislative of the United Kingdom and Eire. two Governments. Council British Wireless.
Mr. De Valera is coming to The necessary data has now London for the purpose
next been collected for the continua- Walsh went to Yangtsepoo in the officer put a brush and dustpan Monday,
tion of discussions between the the afternoon to remove the last in his hands and ordered him to Discussions were suspended Ministers themselves. British truckload of machinery from sweep the floor.
four weeks ago pending a more Wireless Service.
his destroyed printing shop, and
HELD THREE HOURS "was crossing Garden Bridge,
Walsh protested but in order to which spans Soochow Creek near the British Consulate, when he avoid trouble, did so. Then th: was stopped by a naval officer officer, seized the flag, threw it o wearing mufti and a naval cap which he produced a rubber hose the floor and stamped on it, "after who questioned him on his owner-] and struck Walsh repeatedly on
ship of the goods.
U.S. FLAG
the back until other Japanese pre- sent induced him to desist.. Walsh produced a certificate of Subsequently, Walsh, who had ownership chopped by the US been detained altogether three consulate and counter-chopped by hours, was allowed to return to his the Japanese consulate, but the of home in the Settlement south ficer was not satisfied and took him a nearby patrol station for questioning and then to his des- troyed property.
The officer ́prodded the ashes with a stick and unearthed the charred remains of an American flag, clearly recognisable as such by the stars and a few stripes.
Soochow Creek.
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Walsh immediately reported. the incident to the U. S. ConsȚ General, who it is understood, in tends to lodge a strong protest with the Japanese authorities. Walsh served in the Yangtse F tilla of the U. S. Navy from 1928 to 1930, when he was honourably
Walsh wrapped this up and was discharged. Since then he has been taken back to the station, when in business in China Reuter.
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