THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7,
1938.
NATIVE CITY IS "SHAI'S SORROW
CHAPEI RUINED
BEYOND REPAIR:
FATE IN
By EDWARD' BEATTIE
DOUBT
United Press Stuff Correspondent.
Shanghai, Jan. 30.
TWO and a half months of bitter block-to-block warfare reduced Chapci from a prosperous Chinese busincas community to hundreds of acres of forlorn ́ ruins,
Hardly a house between Soochow Creek on the south- west and the open country which begins several miles to the east can be renovated and used again as dwelling, shop or storehouse, it would seem.
Each, save a handful miraculously spared from bombs, bullets and shell fire, must be razed if not already leveled, and built anew.
Bombs have blown buildings apart, leaving only a corner or a fragment of wall standing. Machine-gun fire during the bitter) street fighting literally ate away the fronts of buildings, pul- verized their inside walls and reduced their furnishings to many piles, of rubbish. What the fighting failed to destroy, the fire set by retreating Chinese turned into desolation,
Impassive Japanese troops stationed throughout the district
have cleared the bodies from the IS LORETTA
streets, but to attempt even
to
sweep them clean would have required half of Gen. Iwane Mat-
sui's Shanghai ármy,
n welter of
The streets remain fallen telephone poles, electric wires.
A BRIDE?
80
Hollywood.' Loretta Young was seen wearing
twisted water pipes blusled up from a wedding ring under the surface where Japanese bombs and shell fire tore away the
So the rumours that she recently
pavement. House fronts which fell in went through a secret marriage were one plece from the force of the ex-at once redoubled,
The star, herself, when questioned, laughed, and said the ring "was just En gog."
ROMANCE RUMOUR
plosions obstruct what little traffic cares
tu use
the thoroughfares. Roof tiles are everywhere. What survived best are sandbag redoubts built by the Chinese defenders, and pill- the occasional solid concrete
But since Alice Faye's so-called bg boxes, slotted for machine guns and equipped with electric light and over-friendship ring turned out to stuffed, chairs, which the Japanese really an engagement sparkler few convinced by say the Chinese built long before the have war in violation of a demilitarization Loretti. agreement.
casily
been
Last year Loretta was persistently
Damage is said to be three times rumoured engaged to Eddie, Suther as great as it was in the 1932 war, land, the director. from which Chapel had hardly covered.
rc-
11 MILES OF TRENCHES Where the open country begins, trench system which and with it stretches 11 miles to Tazung, every house has been damaged to n greater
More recently, however, she has! been seen around with Josepis Mun- clewicz-and it is to him she is said to be married.
redoubt in a
counter-attuck
or less extent. Splintered trees and cost 15 of them their lives. abandoned barbed
barricades wire
which
dot the fields. A few stray dogs and In Hongkew. Shanghai's "Little cats, driven from foodless Chapel, Tokyo."
watch the impassive, chubby Japan- Chinese
which was a furget of
PRESIDENT BAGS ONE-This huge lynx, reported one of the largest ever to come to gun in Poland, was brought down by Ignacy Moscick), 70-year-old President of the Repubile, when he went hunting, recently, in the vast state forest at Bletowicza. Poland is one of the few countries whose forests still harbour on
abundance of beurs, boars, lynx, wolves and other animals.
Life Sentence On
"Magnetic" Parson
Pittsfield, Illinois.
SENTENCE of life imprisonment has been passed on the "magnetic parson," the Rev. Ellsworth Newton, a frail Baptist minister, found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Maybelle Kelly, aged 45, during a "whoopee ride” in a car.
Unseen Women's
Secret
Three mysterious women, known; bombers and artillery, as the "Secret Sisters." are puzzing ese troopers creet little wooden signs, damage is still evident; the shops, the people of the Kent sexvide resort. to mark the spots where the first however, are reopening, restaurants Birchington-on-Sea.
They are believed to live in a bar funding party ineinbers fell, and de-serve sukiyak); geisha girls, brought
from Japan, promenade in the noon-rieaded house near Minnis Bay, and corate them with flowers.
man who leaves food there-outside section of line possibly a half mile normal, long, 80 Japanese Infantrymen stood Chapel's-beat-chance-of-returning the door. olt 30,000 indecisive Chinese n to normaley seemingly will be if it, hundred yards distant, and 20 Japan-too, becomes "Little Tokyo,"
will when Jupan ese threw an attack of 10,000 into many believe It
their states the terms of peace. confusion by springing from
Newton, aged 51, was de- scribed by police as "a god to
women," and was said to have had affairs with many of his parishioners. -
He helped Mrs, Kelly, a wealthy woman. to flee from her "un- happy" home.
After a wild ride Newton battered her to death after she decided she would not elope with him.
EMPIRE NEWS
100 MAROONED IN
FLOODED MINE.
Cape Town.
A cloudburst, which flooded the basement of a fiolst room at the Wel- gedacht Mine, Johnnnesburg, resulled in 100 miners being marooned under- ground, European workers were stranded for 18 hours and natives for 21 hours. The machinery was put out of action.
Rain turned the surrounding coun- tryside into a Inke, the torrent diling the basement of the holst room to depth of eft.
The fire brigade was six hours pumping out the water, und the stranded men were brought up this afternoon after an all-night wait In the mine.
Gen. Hertzog's HealthThe health of Gen. Hertzog. the Prime Minister, who is on holiday at his farm near Premier Mine, has much Improved. He has had 18 teeth extracted, and hopes to take an active part in the General Election.
£500,000 Estate.-Mr. Isaac Och- berg, the Cape Town financier, whe died at sen on Saturday, while on his way from London, hän left estate valued at about £500,000. Ile be- queathed large sums to charity, most- ly Jewish, and gave £10,000 to the University of Cape Town for scholar. ships for students of all races.
Record Matze Exports. The most successful reason for the export of mnize that Cape Town has had came to an end at midnight, through the Government ban. Since the end of May nearly 500,000 tons of malze have been exported in 57 speelally chartered shipis.
INDIA
NEW SHERIFF OF CALCUTTA
Calcutta.
Mr. Stephen C. Lyttelton, senior partner in India of Gillanders, Ar- buthnott and Co., has been appointed Sheriff of Calcutta.
in 1887.
Mr. Lyttelton was born the youngest son of the late Right Rey, the Hon. Arthur Lyttelton, Bi- shop of Southampton.
He served in the Navy throughout
the war, was mentioned in despatches and was awarded the O.B.E., D.S.C. and the Croix de Guerre.
Hindu Temple for London. The Maharaja of Tripura has promised to defray the cost of building a Hindu temple in London. It will cost about
€ 53,000. AUSTRALIA
OVER-SUBSCRIBED LOAN
Sydney.
Japanese say that there, niong day sun. Höngkew soon will be the only visitor to the house is a hammer and thrown her body inlo announcing the over-subscription of i
few
the
In a confession he said he had hit!
the head with Mrs. Kelly on
a Mr. R. G. Casey, Federal Treasurer, the Mississippi.
£8,000,000 internal loan by „În-court, however, he accused_bis:- £153,000,-the-targest over-subscrip- They receive no letters, and trades-foster-daughter of having engineered tion since the depression, expressed as men do not call. Though the food)
the crime.
the opinion that the most welcome left at the door disappears, no one
Prosecuting counsel told the jury: feature was the further increase in his ever seen the door open..
"It is your duty to send this man to the number of small investors, Sub- the electric chair. I demand It be scribers numbered 7,550, compared fore God."
with 7,372 in April.
TRUST YOUR DENTIST
But the jury recommended life im- prisonment.
Many trended women tried to enter the court, screaming that
Newton was Innocent,
He has received dozens of lavish presents from women.
The progressive recovery of wool prices brought back a firm tone to the Stock Exchange after several days' weakness.
Estate for Ex-Service Mon.-The estate of Dame Endith Walker, who died at the beginning of October, has been sworn for probaté at £205,340 --Australian. Dame Eadith tert £18,000 to charities, and the res- duary estate was divided between the returned soldiers and the Sailors' Im- perial Leagur of Australia. All her lands are left to the Red Cross Snelety.
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