THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1938.
EYE-WITNESS DECRIBES CHINA'S HOLOCAUST: 1,600 DIED A MINUTE
GETS NEW BLOOD SUPPLY
By an intricate operation, a 50-years-old Dundee man has been "given a new heart" and was reported to be "progressing very well.”
He had been suffering from angina pectoris, which is caused through fallure of blood supply to the heart.
Mr. Francis R. Brown performed the operation In the Dundee Royal Infirmary.
Mr. Brown 'made an opening in! the patient's diaphragm the big .uscle, which divides the body across the middle-brought up fatty tissue, which has an ample blood supply, and stitched it to the heart.
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Shortly new veins will form, and an alternative blood supply to the heart will develop.
An infirmary ometal told the Sun- day Dispatch that the patient's con- dition is giving every satisfaction.
"Although we have had no experi- ence of this type of operation in Dundee," he added, "we are confident the man will make a complete re- covery."
SHAPELY LEG "EXHIBIT A"
San Francisco.
In a $50,000 damage suit resulting from a bite by an English bulldog. Miss Lorraine Llewellyn was obliged to introduce a rather shapely leg in court as "Exhibit: A."
RECALLED TO JAPAN
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AMERICAN STORY OF S'HAI CARNAGE
By H. R. Eking
(Copyright, 1938, by United Press)
New York, Feb. 15.
1 flew from New York to Shanghai Inst July to join the United Press staff covering the Chinese-Japanese hostilities which had started outside Peiping the night of July 7.
Our editors in New York believed these hostilities would develop into a major war. They did and I found myself in the midst of the starkest human tragedy that I have experienced in covering wars around one half the world.
1 reached Hankow early in taken into the Central Chinese Gov-2
ernment after the war started. August.
It is designed to destroy everything destroyable in the path of the enemy's advance so that he cannot live off the countryside.
.
Hankow is known as the "Chicago". of China. It is & sprawling, steaming city on the
I saw grain crops levelled, farm great Yangtze Rivor and for houses burned, buildings, dynamited, centuries the army which con-bridges destroyed, and even footpaths trols it has been the strategie dashed with great holes so that they master of Cathay.
of
could not be walked upon.
I saw the painfully dredged ship channel of the Whangpoo River block- ed with sunken ships Alled with stones.
I went to Hankow because I believed that it would be the best base for travel to those parts
I saw commerce stepped on the China where the most important bat-
mighty Yangise River which for ties of the war would be fought.
centuries has been greatest commer- Fortunately for unfortunately de-cial highway of all Chian--the trans- pending on one's point of view) anport route over which food supplies old case of one of those lineasca move for 100,000,000 people. which beset so many people who have lived long in lands where disease is prevalent, was brought back by the stearning heat of a mid-summer on the ancient central China plain, and I had to return to Shanghai to my doctor..
passenger
I saw children starve when these food supplies were cut off.
I went into North China, The dikes along the rivers there, of built by the toil of generations
and the fields men, were broken turned into muddy, lakes dolled withi mounds of rotting grain.
I got out on the last
Tientsin was u shell of the gay elty- plane which left the city and reach-had known a few years ago when ed Shanghal just in time to be at the At was my headquarters. Piles of Palace Hotel when it was bombed by crushed brick and pieces of broken Chinese Alers trying to strike at the concrete were all that was left of Japanese.
buildings I used to frequent. That was Shanghof's "Bloody, Saturday."
I heard a description of war from broken Chinese soldiers who were invalided from the front. They Three Chinese aerial bomba killed whispered of men who were chained at least 1,000 people-including to their machine guns so that they Americans in the
when they space of one could not cease fring minute.
were assigned to cover a retreat. They told of officers who enforced All these people were civilions. Fobedience with automatic pistols. Not one soldier was hit. They were the children, the men, and the wo- ment of a streat city who were going about the activities of everyday life just as any other people go about their everyday activities In the middle of any day in any large city in the world-
They were the victims of modern, mechanized war.
Two bombs crashed through the Poltice and Cathay hotels on the crowded Shanghai waterfront,
Another bomb crashed at the intersection of Avenue Edward VII and Tibet Road. That bomb alone killed more than 1,000 people. It tore a crater in the road into which one could put a small-sized railway car. It mangled hundreds of children, wo men, and men beyond recognition.
Indicative of the destructiveness of explosives, I saw the bodies of people who had been killed simply by concussion. Every bit of clothing had been blown from the bodies.
I went into the countryside. Death struck there with the same effectiveness that it stuck in the cit
ies,
Japanese and Chinese planes came over high in the skies, cireled, and came down in screaming power dives The bombs came from them almost as accurately as shelis came from fleld Bunk
INDESCRIBABLE DESTRUCTION Columns of men simply dissolved into fragments of torn flesh.
Houses disappeared in clouds dust which settled over the bodies of the farm families that had been in them.
I went into Chapci.
of
I had scen Chapel--one of the principal Industrial areas of the Shanghai Chinese city-destroyed be- fore, during the Chinese Japanese hostilities of 1032.
They Insist On Getting Me Wrong, Avers Mae
AE WEST, who has been under More for her appearance as Eve in the broadcast skit "Adam and Eve," strenuously denied that had any intention of saying anything to hurt the susceptibilities of her audience.
the
Speaking over the long-distance telephone from her home at Holly- wood in a voice tinged more with sadness than with anger, she told the Daily Mall New York correspondent:
KNOW WHAT'S VULGAR" "I wouldn't do anything to hurt religion. 1 1 go to church myself. I am still convinced there was noth- ing objectionable in the skit Other- wise I would not have played in it."
Mac feels that others who were responsible for putting the skit on the wireless have, as she said, "Let the Indy down."
But she admitted that her tre- mendous popularity would be sufil- clent to account for the concentrated fire to which she has been subjected. "I know what's vulgar and what -isn't," she exclaimed. "I make fun of vulgarity but people insist on petting me wrong. They read into things I say something not there.
This is what happened. I was asked to act as Eve jo Don Ameche's Adam. I went to the studio and was handed the script, which I read
never changed front of the mike.
The destruction then was almost as nothing compared to this destruction. word.
It was a grim example of the speed
"No one was more astonished then with which the effectiveness of ex-I when the furore broke out. plosives is being developed,
I went to Woosung.
"Whatever some Puritans may any,
I prefer to leave my case it: the handi Woosung is really a part of Shang-of the great American public. It hala sort of port suburb at the refuses to condemn me, as I know confluence of the Whangpoo and from lettera received;" Yangtee Riven north of Shanghat's International Settlement..
I saw the same things I had seen in Nanking Road, in Avenue Edward VII, at the fighting front in the coun-i try, and in Chapel.
"But I remarked, "there is the suggestion that it was not so much what you said us the way you said it."
"Well," she replied, "I can't help my voice. After all, that's one thing aw children, women, and men even the censors can't take away
from me."
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Many of them wero blown ino The famous film atar hopes, it con- pieces too widely scattered to make tracis permit, to visit England this possible a decent burial,
Some of those who lived through the continuous séries of attacks and counter-attacks were left with only atumps for Ilmbs, Olhera Were blindedl
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