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THE CHINA MAIL.

TWO DAY SIEGE

Story of Women's Heroism in Shanghai.

CHILDREN'S PLIGHT.

Five Hundred In A Long Drawn Peril.

pared to depart. Some of them

MR. O'MALLEY,

HIS FATHER A HONG KONG OFFICIAL

OLD ATTORNEY-GENERÁL.

By this time everyone has heard of Mr. Owen St. Clair O'Malley, the "China Ex- press and Telegraph" (London), says. The youthful features of the Counsellor of Legation from A narrative, epic in its simplicity At 5 p.m. It was decided that the Peking who has just won his and courage, was related to a re-should be evacuated as by this time Service, are....familiar to the remaining students of the convent spurs in the British Diplomatic presentative of the "North China the garden of the place was entire- newspaper readers of this coun- Daily News" by the Motherly open to maraudere should any try.. [Superior of the Institution, of the appear. The surrounding Chinese Much, however, as we have Holy Family, 20 North Honan Road barrier for the convent compound advent at Hankow, his personal- houses which formed a Bort of heard of Mr. O'Malley since his Extension, which was in the midst had been burned to the groundity is still somewhat of a mystery of the havoc caused by shelling and Counting sisters, children and aer to many people. Even the pro- flames in Chapel throughout Mon. Pants a party of almost 850 pronunciation of his name is not al-]; day and Tuesday. All the refugees managed to traverse Jukong Road, ways the same, for some talk of from the convent who have not re-and thence on to the Settlement. Mayley, others pronounce it as turned to their homes are now liv.It was impossible to get ricsha coo. spelt, and a very few, who Hke to ing at St. Joseph's Institute in the Hes; and as many of the children be different, speak his name as French Concession.

were quite small and all frightened if he were one of the inhabitants The Holy Family Institution was

an almost insurmountable problem of rubber land. filled with Chinese refugees at the presented itself. Six of the sisters, Connection With Hong Kong. time of the trouble, who had come moreover, were unable to walk. The obscurity that surrounded in from surrounding districts, ba-Shortly after the first preparations Mr. O'Malley is chiefly due to the sides the large number of children were going forward hiside the con- fact that the greater part of his ranging in age from one to 20 years

vent Father Jacquinot who had and the 41 sisters in charge of the come to do whatever he could to official life has been spent as a school. Shelling started in deadly rescue the convent folk appeared. clerk in the Foreign Office, where earnest on Monday afternoon, The work was greatly hastened and his knowledge of China and Chin- With ese conditions has always been re- cording to the Mother Superior of the evacuation carried out. the convent.

At that time there the exception of four sisters who garded as a valuable asset. Now were 200 Chinese refugees inside went out to Siccawei Convent, all only 40 years of age, he was made the institution. 160 Chinese school the children who had no homes to Counsellor of the Legation at children and 132 foreign children to, and the sisters were lodged Peking in 1923, and the successful besides the sisters and a large in St. Joseph'a Institution where conclusion of the Hankow nego number of servants. Some parents they will remain until they can re-tiations means that he will prob of the children who had managed turn to Chapel..

ably be heard of a great deal more to get there for the purpose of tak-

in the future. Disappointed Marauders,

People in the ing their children to safety were

East will be interested to know Also, marooned in the midst of the said that following the depar-son of Sir Edward Loughlin Word: from the Institution that Mr O'Malley is the younger shelling and Ares.

Shella began falling upon the roof ture of the convent authorities and O'Malley, who was Attorney Gen- of the school the first one landing dependants, Rec soldiers swarmed over the Enfant Jesu building, and through the ground floor of the cral for Hong Kong from 1879 to the second attacking the roof of the place with the obvices intention of 1880 and Chief Justice of the little girls' school building beyond. feasting throughout the night. As Straits Settlements from 1889 to Then the main buildings were the food supply which had sufficed 1892. Indeed, his family, an attacked and the wreckage of roof during the two day aloge for all Anglo-Irish one. is reputed to and wall created terror in the minds these inside the convent was begin-have had much to do with the Far When in England Mr. or the hundreds who were prayingning to run low at the end of that East. for protection inside. Actually, time, the soldiers found their "fun O'Malley Hves quietly at Ockham, however, no explosion took place somewhat impaired, and left before in Surrey. from any of the shells so that no morning. The servant who remain- ed and who brought the message to: lives were Icst..

¡St.. Joseph's, declared that the institution was then filled with Three shells landed inside the 300 homeless Chinese from adjoin- chapel of the convent but they Fing districts. Two coolies who had were spent and rolled out into the remained to look after things at corridor. Two others fell from the the convent had been killed by walls into a group of the 200 re- picking up an unexploded shell, but fugees in the ground floor corridor, apart from these, it do not thought | Not a single person was hurt, as that any of the actual inhabitante. The similarity of features be- there was no explosion. It soon of the convent have been injured.. tween two twin brothers led to became apparent that firing was All the religious vestments had to the appearance in the Summary being directed at the Institution, be left at the convent, although the Court yesterday of the brother as no sooner would someone from sacred vessels were gathered up and who was not the subject of the the convent appear in the street carried to safety. At the first mo claim in question, outside than renewed Aring would ment of quietness the sisters will The brother in Court claimed result..

return and clear up the debris of that he had been served with the the institution, to open it up again writ by a European bailiff. He,

A Lurid Night.

"WATCH" TOM MANN.

J

THE WRONG MAN

TRADING ON BROTHERLY LIKENESS?

SUMMARY COURT CASE.

however, was not concerned in the claim of the plaintiff for $1,000 in respect of a loan. The real defen- dant had been absent from the Colony for some months..

On Tuesday morning the same confusion exlated after a night made lurid by sounds of guerilla warfare and by the red glare of burning Chapei, The milkwoman, one of the faithful servanta of the institution, came early in the morn- Telegrams from the Far East ing and a letter was entrusted to announce the arrival at Canton of The bailiff stated that the man Her to get assistance for the a party of Communists from Mos-in Court, although like him, was stricken institution.. But the milk cow, one of them being a French-not the man who had been point- woman neither returned nor was man, another an American, and aled out to him by the plaintif and heard from, and her fate was be third our own revolutionary on whom he had served the writ. lieved to have been like so many veteran, Tom Mann, who, since The man on whom the writ had others during those two night-mare his association with the Russian been served had a white beard. days.

An attempt was made at 2 pm ruddiest Red

Reds, has become 'notorious as the This man had not.

among them. His Honour, Mr. P. Jacks, said on Tuesday to leave the school, and Known here as the "stormy petrel he could not believe the story of sisters began their work of collect ing panic-stricken children and ser- of industry Tom Mann, now a the brother in Court. He thought vants, along with a few refugees to deptuagenarian, but still very the writ had probably been served make the trip.

One sister volun-, active, has become chairman of on the real defendant, but it was teered to take a small group of the the Red Nationalist minority a mystery how the other man younger children, numbering among movement, and at the moment is came to be in possession of it.

After hearing proof of the them many babies only a year old. cn the safest ground in the world'

An old woman who had been a faith- for one of his ilk. He has been im-loan, His Honour gave judgment ful servant in the linen room of the prisoned and fined, has worked as for the plaintiff against the miss- convent wished to go with the party a labourer, miner, and engineering brother.. which started out only to be sub has kept a public house, observes jected to a rain of bullets from the the "China Express and Tele- neighbourhood. While the sister` graph."

jand children contlaved on their

problematical escape, the old sor-{ jvant grew frightened and returned Ito the convent. Only a few yards)

Had been traversed even at that. time, but as she turned back a bullet hit her in the neck and she fell! alongside the wall of the school building. There she lay until af coolie from the convent attempted) to rescue her, As he stooped to pick the old woman up, a shot caught him also and he crumpled! up. Other attempts were made to bring the two wounded; back, but each attempt ended without auc- cess and it soon became only too apparent that the two were dead, and that snipers were on a careful lookout for any person who appear ed outside the convent. The slater with her small charges arrived safely inside the Settlement, how ever, and thence went to St. Joseph's Institution in Rue Montauban.

The Change of Wind,"

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You cannot always be certain of Lehman what your little one ekts för thers must f Mrs. J. Kákaseburg, Mesars, E., By this time the' covered play- be frequent occasions when the child Muller, K. El Magnusson, ground of the Institution was in is not under yom! watchful eye. An Lt-Colonel WAP McCowen, flames and the buildings which were apparently alight derangement t of Mr and Mrs. C. H. Mattinge,. Mzi joined together, by the wooden stomach and bowels may be the begin- and Mrs R C. Memichan, Mrs. framework of the shed in jeopardy, ning of serious intestinal infection: W. B. Metcalfe

Several times during the day the sisters remarked that the wind

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