1939-03-25 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 25, 1939

Pare

Chinese Abandon

Abandon Wucheng

Heavy Pressure

After

DOCTOR'S CHASE AT TUBE STATION

Girl Killed By A Train

ALLEGED REMARK BY ACCUSED MAN

A remark about "an overpow-

ercing impulse to throw someone

under a train" was alleged to

have been made to a friend by

Leonard Ward Davies, 30, of Windsor-road, Holloway, N., who

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BID TO CAPTURE

NANCHANG

Shanghai, To-day.

£27,000,000 *MAN DIES

IN SURGERY

A man whose management in- creased a fortune by £27,000,000 in five years has died in a doctor's surgery at Nottingham..

He was Lieutenant-Colonel Sir

Following steady pressure, accompanied by the William Thomas Cox, D.S.O., of constant shelling of Japanese warships and Oakwood-mansions, Kensington,

London, W. severe aerial raids by Japanese aircraft, Wu- cheng, on the west bank of the Poyang Lake, Travelling to Nottingham he was evacuated by the Chinese troops yesterday was taken ill on the train. When the train reached Nottingham and is now fully occupied by the Japanese. Sir William was taken to the was charged on remand at Marl-Clashes between the Chinese and Japanese on the outskirts of the town are, however, continuing this morning.

borough-street with the murder of Avril Ray Waters, of Broad- field-avenue, Edgware.

Wucheng, according to Japanese

messages, has been reduced to NAVVY'S HOBBY

ruins by incessant. bombing, and shelling and parts of the city are still burning.

•

IS EMBROIDERY

Mr. E. Clayton, Director of Public Prosecutions, said that the girl would have been 15 next

The Japanese troops are report- For a living Thomas Bradley, ed steadily advancing along the navvy, wields a shovel in his month. She travelled daily on Kiuking-Nanchang Highway to-mighty, horny hands.

wards Nanchang, and their van- the underground to attend

guard was this morning reported commercial school as a shorthand to be within 15 miles of the capital

of Kiangsi. student.

At

For pleasure he plies a tiny needle and does embroidery work of exquisite beauty.

The Chinese are repeatedly

inflicting His rough fingers are as sen- Tottenham Court-road counter-attacking and

heavy losges on the Japanese sitive as those of any woman, and station Davies was seen to push troops. Fierce battles are raging more sensitive than most.

north-west of Nanchang, which, After a hard day's labour, Tom her in front of an oncoming according to reports this morning first has his tea, then takes out train, part of which went over was boing heavily bombed by Ja- his workbasket.

panese planes.... Our Own Cor respondent.

her.

Davies Stopped

**That was seen by Dr. Fisher, He would say he ran after Dav- ies, who made for one of the

MAIN FORCE ENGAGED AT TANKI

Shushui, Kiangsi, To-day.

surgery of a local doctor, where he died in half an hour.

Accommodation had been re- served for Sir William and Lady Cox at a local hotel. It is be-

lieved that they intended, to visit home of Lord Savile, in the Duk-

Rufford Abbey, formerly the

eries, which is now in the mar ket.

Sir William Cox, whose wife was à cousin of Sir John Eller-

man, managed Sir John's estate.

Left £40,000,000

When the late Sir John Eller- man died in 1933 he left £40,000,- 000. Of this £22,000,000 went in death duties.

Under Sir William's manage- ment the Ellerman estate is now said to have grown to £45,000,000,

For an hour or so he busies Sir William was fifty-seven. He himself with a piece of silk, then was created a knight in 1937. he turns out to the “local” for During the war he was in just one before closing time. the Royal Artillery. He was On the walls of Tom's home wounded twice, awarded the at Stockport-road, Cheadle Heath; D.S.O. and was mentioned in Stockport, hang a number of dispatches. examples of the fine work he His wounds forced him to leave turns out.

the Army, and then his wife's uncle gave him a start in business by making him a manager of the Ellerman real estate interests.

exists. He was stopped by a The Japanese who succeeded in number of people on the plat-crossing the Siu River are trying form."

to reach Nanchang by highway. "I first learned embroidery Their main force is being engaged when I was in hospital for nine Davies said to Dr. Fisher, "at Tanki. Their vanguards who months towards the end of the could not help it. I could not passed through Tanki under the war," Tom told a reporter. help it." In the station mas-escort of several tanks have been Tom has another unusual habit, ter's office Davies said to P.c. driven back.

He wears gold earrings. John, "I don't know what made The Chinese left wing at Wun- me do it.".

ing is reported to have the situa tion well in hand. The Japanese Davies did not know the girl, driving from Joki to Wuning has said Mr. Clayton. He had been been engaged at Tungkow, east of employed 28 a barman from Wuning, for the past four days. March to May last year, and one Fighting assumed great bitterness helped me."- of his fellow employees at that yesterday but the Japanese were time would say that the day be-unable to make headway. Consider- fore the tragedy Davies went to able casualties were see him.

both sides.-Central News.

suffered

ROAD HOGS" HALL OF SHAME

He was in a very distressed condition and said to this man, "Do you believe in spirits of per- sonalities?" The man told him he had not enough knowledge, and Davies then said, "What Walls hung with photographs would you think of a man who of motorists and the corpses of had an overpowering impulse to their victims is the world's most throw someone under a train?" gruesome public gallery planned

for Kansas City, Missouri. The man told him to give up Named "The Hall of Shame,” the type of literature he was it will be open daily in the hope reading, added Mr. Clayton, but of terrifying motorists and pede next day he did the thing he had strians into being more careful. been talking about.

Drivers involved in accidents, will be compelled by police to Mr. Eric Noel Waters, the girl's stand by those they have knock- father, a grocery manager, was ed down while a super-candid in a distressed state when he cameraman makes studies. gave evidence of identification

It may sound ghastly," and was allowed to sit in the Mayor McElroy told a New York witness-box.

✅ correspondent, "but surely it is Davies was remanded in cus-time we did something to stop tody for seven days and was the road massacre. I hope other granted a certificate for legal cities all over the world will fol-

low our example.

aid.

"With doing so much embroi- dery I found my sight was being affected," he said, "so I thought of the old custom of having the ears pierced to help the sight.

"There is no doubt that it has

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The Ellerman Property Trust, which he directed from an office in Moorgate, has ramifications in real estate, shipping, breweries, newspapers and other interests.

Lady Cox, who is daughter of John Francis Butlin, of Birming- ham was a mathematics "wrang- ler" at Cambridge.

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