THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 11, 1939.
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KWANGTUNG'S PLIGHT UNDER JAPANESE HEEL At Least Three Hundred Villages Razed
Fate Of A People
At Stake
Commenting on the tragedy of Kwangtung under
Japanese invasion, "The Rock" in its latest is
sue says:
Though Hong Kong is politically neutral, and its at- titude in this matter is scrupulously correct, yet it would be very strange if the sympathy of those who live here were not on the side of those who form the great majority of the population.
CHANGED SENTIMENTS
One still remembers how much indignation was aroused during the It happened that in Kwangtung Great War, not merely in allied pos- there were some villages that were sessions but in any community of not unfriendly to the idea of Ja- allied peoples, if it became known
panese suzerainty. that some living among them with- held sympathy from the cause for which the nations were fighting and were concerned only with busi- ness interests.
The position is not different here, and its seriousness is accentuated
by the fact that it is not the fate of a country but of a people that
is at stake.
HUGE AREA DEVASTATED In a comparatively small area east and north-east of Hong Kong, at least three hundred villages are known to have been razed to the ground; systematic war has been waged on the civilian population, and before the winter is over the| dread spectre of famine may ap- pear in South China. It is impos- sible for people with ordinary hu- man feelings to be indifferent to events which produce such results, and if any people are, and show themselves, indifferent, a new bar- rier must necessarily arise between them and those whose brothers and
MENZEL TO PLAY BLIND, PLEADS FOR GERMANY FOR EYES OF
A MURDERER
Berlin, To-day. the Davis Cup tie contest in 1939, accident, will shortly be led
Germany has filed her entry for Colorado politician, blind from
William Lewis, a brilliant young
according to a statement issued here yesterday.
an
into
Canon City Prison, Colorado, to plead with a confemned killer for the gift of sight.
The German Davis Cup team will this time consist of Henner Henkel
Lewis, using every possible argu- as captain, the South German, ment, will urge Joe Arridy, twenty- Roderich Menzel, George von Metaxa eight, to submit to an operation for and Hans Redl.
the removal of his eyes before he The Berlin player, Rolf Goepfert, marches to an electric chair in mid- will
emergency.-Trans-January. Ocean.
act
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The cornea from these eyes would be grafted into the sightless eyes of Lewis.
Then, once again he would see, and, in his own words, "dedicate
The people in these places, had suffered so much from conflicting authority that they were ready to accept, though not to welcome, Ja-Hing, was fatally injured yester-ing Arridy to be operated on.
FATAL ACCIDENT myself to the service of humanity."
panese rule.
A 38-year-old Chinese, named Ng
the
day, when he was knocked down by Their sentiments have changed motor car No. 1726, driven by Lt.- now. They have seen the supposed Com. Caddy of Kai Tack, in champions of order visiting each Ngau Shi Wan Road. house and threatening to shoot the
men if they did not hand over their they received at the hands of the women, and they have in many Japanese. The utter destruction of cases seen the women throw them- any feeling of friendship with Ja- selves into the lakes rather than pan is the one definite result of return home after
the treatment the war în South China.
Mrs. Clark Gable
Talks At Last--"I'm Still His Wife"
•
Hollywood, Dec. 18. from Gable through a property set- sisters and friends are suffering. Clark Gable's estranged wife,tlement, she replied:
The causes of the war must ne-Mrs. Rhea Gable, to-day flung down "I'm equally at a loss to under- cessarily enter into any considera-[a dramatic challenge to his plans to stand from what source that state- tion of the attitude of Hong Kong's divorce her.
ment has come. foreign population to it, for even in "I'm still his wife
I resent
"The subject of our property our grossly degenerate day the any reflection on my status as Mrs. agreement is still under litigation. moral cause of any action
Gable," she said in a special inter-When the figures are worked out it still be taken into account.
view.
will be found that I've received very Breaking silence after Hollywood much less than the amount claimed gossipers have spent weeks talking for me.
RIDICULOUS
mast
to
to-
of the Gables' marital tangle, she "I believe our legal advisers can made it clear that great obstacles settle fairly any dispute over pro- must be overcome before her hus-perty." band can fulfil the popular forecast While Mrs. Gable was reveal- by marrying glamorous £97,000-a- year Carole Lombard.
To destroy communism and put an end to unfriendliness wards Japan are the reasons which Japan has given us over and over again for waging the present war. Applied to the war in South China the reasons appear ridiculous. Com- munism in Canton and in the Kwangtung province was wiped out by a wave of popular feeling which resulted in violence little less sweeping than that which intro-herself. duced it into the province. Even more amazing
the to-day, are claíms, still repeated, that this war||Gable said:
Early this week Clark startled Hollywood by announcing he would seek to divorce his wife, as she had failed to take the opportunities he had given her to start divorce action
Receiving me in her home here forty-eight-year-old Mrs.
ing her long-guarded sentiments to the "Sunday Pictorial,” her famous "he-man" husband was on a hunting expedition in the Arizona mountain lion country.
He fled there after announc- ing his startling divorce plan.
week.
THRICE WED
was
For a month now doctors and friends of Lewis have been implor-
Arridy storms with fury at the suggestion.
"You're going to kill me," he yells.
'Isn't that enough. . D'you want to blind me too?"
Attempts have been made to com- pel Arridy by legal means to sub- mit to this sacrifice, but they have failed.
So now Lewis a pathetic figure, will feel his way into the death cell, point to his blind eyes in an effort to win Arridy's sympathy.
Arridy, known as "the Erotic Im- becile," murdered a fifteen-year-old girl with a hatchet as she lay in bed with a younger sister.
Lewis was blinded last year by a tear gas bomb that exploded in his hand.
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Clark Gable, whose name has long been romantically linked with Carole is being waged to win the friend- "The anouncement that Mr. Gable|Lombard, has a ten-year contract ship of the Chinese people. Ja-is going to obtain divorce is a com- bringing him thousands of pounds a
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"I've tried to maintain the Under Californian law Mrs. Gable full nourishment is derived from the Chinese territory picture leaflets · dignity becoming the wife of a is entitled to half these earnings. food eaten; they dispel constipation, that are this year's most popular man of my husband's standing.. Twice married before, she
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pel worms. They are also of great help among the most puerile.attempts at tory of him or any of his friends. Gable in 1931.--Clark was thirty. during the teething period; by settling propaganda ever put forward by I shan't do so now.
She has a married daughter as old the stomach thoy help to ease the pains people that claim to be intelligent. "I'm still his wife, and the matter as the leading ladies in her hus-and induce sound, restful sleep in a
perfectly natural way. They consisted of crudely-drawn of divorce has never been broached band's pictures. *
At chemists everywhere you can obtain this splen- cartoons, badly printed and gaud-by me.
It was Gable's second marriage did children's health safeguard. ily coloured, appealing to the "Further, I resent any reflections Years ago, before he reached fame, Chinese to regard the Japanese as on my status as his wife,”
he married Josephine Dillon. He their friends and to cease fighting Asked about a report that she had was ten years younger than his against them
already receive £57,200 in cash Ibride.'
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