1937-08-25 — Page 8

THERE WAS

on the

and the

remain with

rest

her

EVACUATION

weight shrapnel fell on Shan

that afternoon. We found

would thing O.K. and informed the mil

ther for the tary guards on the way out as to the others didn't seem

der life: Head what had happened in Nanking stand that we were waving to them less bodies, legs and arms lying Road. We did not know then what about, people torn in two

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The Second of Two Instalments

piled on board having to cross another tug to get there. Most of the women bore up bravely, in fact I didnt see a sign of weeping any-

Smiles and handkerchiefs the order of the day when the boat finally pulled out leaving the men standing on the lighters and

but had happened on Avenue Edward ber one desire was to get as far VIL away from the scene of carnage as. Wer listened to gun fire night possible. Why they were neither of after night and Monday was par them wounded in the slightest ticularly fierce as the warships near so passed by without smiling. They down stream she sailed, round the will ever remain a mystery to both the Bund fired salvo after salvo all carried revolvers with heavy men-of-war and alongside one of the of them. The Australian was quite into the Pooting side where the wooden grips and certainly seemed destroyers on which they climbed. calm and collected and did his best Chinese had entrenched themselves well fed and well clothed What I This ship later took them down to pacify the lady who was Rus and were hurling shells into Hong was particularly struck with was stream and once again they sian. She asked to be taken to Sey- kew over the Bund. They told me their healthy skin and appearance were under fire but all were safely mour Road so we drove along. Bub- bling Well and were just; în- time to see the two bombs drop at the COFFÈZ“ of Yu Ya -Ching- Road and Aveisue. · Edward:- VIL Immediately the poor girl screamed and now asked to be let out of the car immediately and the two of them went into the YM.C.A. build ing for safety. We carried on home to see that the children were safely under cover as hundreds of pounds

THE

WORLD

GOES BY

WE

A LIFETIME IN A WEEK

at the office in the morning that They smelled strongly of garlic so between decks so nothing untoward this bombardment had shaken every- I was glad to get out of range.

I happened.

I went back to the office after one up and when a torpedo went off visited the British military guards the whole building in which one of close by and informed them of the seeing of the family and made all my men lived actually rocked on its occurrence and during the night, at firal arrangements for my own de foundations as though they were in 1 o'clock, my wife saw someone shoot parture. Jane the "Alsatian went to

at the military car in which sat the one of my senior men, the chickens a hammock.

afficer on guard duty doing his had been sent to my German neigh- We heard that the whole of the

rounds. I didn't sleep again that bour next door, the blue love birds Hungjao Road residents were told

night as you may well imagine. had gone to a flat in town and the

to come into the Settlement. for Neither did my wife." The next cat was to be taken by my account-

safety, a move I still doubt, but as we were inside the railway line we were not asked to hift. We went to bed each evening listening to the booming of the naval guns and watching the red reflections in the sky from the fires that were burn- ing fiercely in various parts of Hongkew and Chapel and I will

By F. C. Millington,

managing director of Millington, Ltd., Shanghai, who has just arrived in the Colony in the Maron.

leave mothers to think what the morning I stopped at the barrier to ant All the food left in the house HAT would you have of me,state of my wife was when they

amongst our friends, everything of value had been boxed you who read, light or fruit? realise that we had three children find out if the officer had been hit was divided

to tend, all below the age of three. but they were already prepared for

and taken into Shanghai but Not a week passes without someone

we On Thursday evening we were rang me and told me that we were not to left all the crockery and cutlery complaining that Ulysses is not as good as he used to be, and I must up at 7 o'clock and advised to move worry as it was only a back fire. I just where it was in the cupboards not retort that it never was,

be in immediately because troops were thanked the sentry for the infor

and drawers and hoped for the best. OI the Hungjao Road tion but kept my own counsel Our watchman had brought in his cause "Punch" said that first, and massing

wife and family and bad installed "Punch" is so well known. It was ready to attack the Settlement from know a shot when I hear one.

the West and our house being in Various friends advised us to himself in the servants' quarters Bacon, I believe, who drew the dis- tinction between those branches of the way would naturally be affect come into the Settlement for the and there he was to stay till we re- study that are fruitful in practically ed and it would be better if we last night before departure and of turned. I paid of the boys up to useful ways (fructifera) and these woke up the children who had just fered to put all of us up but the the end of the month and told them which merely illumine the under-been put to sleep and took them to countryside looked so peaceful and that I could let them know when standing (lucifera). I have heard a place of safety. I felt that this the sound of firing even in the north I was returning and with that locked the house and departed. Build- that there are publications which information might be looked into a having disappeared entirely, we-set- instruct their readers how to make little more thoroughly before being tled down for the night and did't ers were still busy with a nursery Nothing happened at all and that I had decided to build in the a trap for catching blackbeetles out acted upon so I jumped into my car move.

subject, booze

ΠΟΥ and

of an old cigar box, the lens of a with a German friend and visited the next day we packed everything garden so I expect this will be com- camera, and a few dollars worth 2 couple of the military posts to see we had decided to take with us and pleted before I return, probably all of platinum wire, and that sort of

if they had heard anything to war-in two cars passed through the lines wrong, but we shall miss the mess our immediate evacuation for the last time on the way to the attending all building operations in thing. I cannot compete with them ant So I must be content to be a light-They had not, so we chatted with a Shanghai Club where we had to as China or anywhere else for that house, like the Hong Kong Univer-perfectly charming midshipman for semble the children by 9am. It matter. sity.

Ja short while and a very calm and was amusing to see the sacred pre Once again we assembled in the Where is all this leading? How

collected Shanghai police sergeant cints of the world famous bar re- Shanghar Club and were conducted the devil do I know? I'm only and eventually returned home with sounding to the running feet of on board without any fuss or bother writing the damn stuff. And hat-out letting my wife know anything children but the serious looks on the of any kind No raids were going ing it, too. Just to cheer myself about the phone call As a result faces of the elders dampened all on then but fires were raging all up I will turn to that fascinating of this she had a fair night's rest amusing thoughts and many poor over Hongkew and Chaper and volu- but I had none and listened all night wives wondered when they would be mes of smoke 1000 feet high were for the coming troops. The next seeing their husbands again. The being wafted right across the Settle- The crime reporter thinks I've

were kindness itself. ment towards the railway station been neglecting whisky lately, and day we saw Chinese Troops scout- naval men demands “a paragraph

ing round our premises and I went They seemed to be all over the place, which had been unmercifully bombed again on that" Either he is not out to them to see if I could dis- at the Club entrance waiting to open all that week and again that morn- Unfor- door of your car when it arrived al- ing. Nanyang Brothers factory re- the constant reader of this column cover anything of value.

tunately they none of them spoke ongside, on the steps to assist you up cently acquired by H. H Kong, I be claims to be, or he is not a re- the Shanghai dialect and not a word these in the lounge to show you here am told, was blazing fiercely, flames go the only place where they did were rising from the roof in three the editor objects to my frequent of English. They looked perfect-to references to the delights of alco-ly fit and fresh and healthy, were no appear to be was behind the bar places to a height of 100 feet above

studying maps and the wire em but this was sufficiently well looked the ground. This is holism. He says I write of it so much that merely reading it gives placements of the British Troops after by the old boys of the Club finest factory buildings in Broad- down the road in a very business who willingly served drinks to the way and many millions of dollars him that one over the eight feel- like and soldierly manner children as the weather was steamy worth of dama

abviously be- land after 2 short observa- and hot

ing done here When we were all tion departed. A friendly

We had not been in the Club hve

(man? came, up, whilst was

minutes when the anti-aircraft

ducted tw deckrate giver drink of tes deavouring to get into conversa- boomed out once more and

eet lime juice and gen- erally well The campaign to collect old scraption with the Chinese troops iron for gen

at Home is we talked together for a time

keep ayPeople are Chinese. They gave nothing aw

but just talked about easing vehemence

flective one. As a matter of fact,

ing. So now you know the feeble stuff editors are made of.

Any Old Iron?

told

would be

ing

sides

women “ant felniören that /

mytime

out to see

and my family and we just this was in bit thick but evidently looking,

ont of the portho other

amy they were not going to take any no- with a petty officer whose time was

(Continued on Page 9). tice of it. The naval men just smiled