1937-08-14 — Page 17

IN BED EACH WINTER WITH RHEUMATISM

· Although Only in Her Teens

This young woman has certainly hnd her share of trouble. Though only twenty now, she was laid up each winter with rheumatian for five or alx years. Last winter woa different. By that time she had begun to take Kruschen Salts, and since then there has been no further sign of rheumatism.

"I am only twenty," she writes, "ond have suffered from rheumatism for five or six years now. I used to get it in the legs, and each winter was laid up for weeks with rheumta- the inflammation in the knee joints and ankles. after a bad attack, I began taking tte winter before last, Kruschen Salts, and since then have not hind

touch of rheumatism, thanks to this wonderful remedy,"

(Miles) M.

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EYE-WITNESSES TELL STORY OF CHAPEI BATTLE

(Continued from Page 1.)

at snipers ten minutes before my arrival.

During the twenty minutes I spent between the Chinese and Japanese lines at North Honan Rood gate no more than 50 Chinese soldiers were visible to me at any one time. But there were several thousands barricaded in sniping positions in near-by buldings, I was told.

Meanwhile, Ekins had gone north, into open country towards Kiangwa, Here is his story: STUBBORN RESISTANCE

Do you realise what causes rheu- matism? Nothing but sharp-edged urie neid crystals which form as the result of sluggish cilminating organs, Kruschen Soils can always be counted upon to clear those painful crystala from the system. The numerous mineral salts in Kruschen are boundly headers, are gled to dissolve away all traces of uric with the panoply of war.

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THE HONGKONG

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INTENDS WRITING TO THE DUKE OF WINDSOR

London, Aug. 13. George McMahon, who was nrrest- ed and sentenced to a term of im- prisonment for throwing a revolver at the Duke of Windsor, then King of England, on Constitution Hill, following the ex-King's succesalon in 1930, was relelised from Wandsworth Prison to-day.

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SATURDAY,

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AUGUST

14, 1937.

GIRL ILL-TREATED

WOMAN DESCRIBED AS

HARDLY HUMAN

"This is the most blatant case of

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neroplanes, from the aircraft carrier which Is lying off Woosung, wil attack the Chinese positions.

The most exciting encounter yester-gross cruelty that has ever been day occurred when #1 destroyer and gunboat dropped a ledge. After hearing what you and Japanese brought to this Court, to my know- barrage to halt a Chinese attack on the child have said, I am of the Japanese cotton mills. The Japanese opinion that you are hardly human, claim the Chinese were forced to re- tire to their original positions. JAPANESE DISLODGED As he left the slipped a ring on his finger and ex-practically unchanged at the moment

prison his wife

Chinese and Japanese lines remain not nearly claimed: "Now

married from what they were at the outbreak case." ogola."

of hostilities, except that the Chinese

any harm."

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Troops. sandbags and ammunition every- where; staff officers in open cars; Hutson

officers dashing madly in T.T. London molor-cycle side-cars; and Immediate-Demand

and thinks in fact that you are a fiend. You are not only not to have charge of any child whatever, you are not fit to be where any chil- dren are. The maximum penalty is sumelent to meet the

Bald

With these strong remarks, Mr. E. In a statement, McMahon said,ssert they have dislodged the blue-Himsworth, first Kowloon Magis The Chinese were resisting stub-

"First I want to vindicate myself. i Jackets of the Landing Party from an trate, yesterday. sentenced Wong bornly, although the villages in which am going to write to the Duke of Important bridge in the Chapel-Chan, 51-year-old married woman, when I arrived near Kiangwna. Be- they were entrenched were blazing, Windsor. He knows I never meant Klangwan sector.

to six months hard labour for her Under the noses of two Japanese

of a seven-year-old ill-treatment iween two big fires a. Union Jack

destroyers, the Chinese are completing girl, who appeared in Court bearing nuttered over some British property

He added that the prison authoria boom across the Whangpoo River, several

Inter Fraser.

burns on her face. which, shooting Indicated, will be ties had not permitted him to mail 200 yards south of the Shanghai Club.

Mr. H.

Inspector of diment to protect.

a letter to the Duke of Windsor on the Japanese steaming up the Whang-received information that on unre-

The barricade is intended ́to

prevent Mul-Taal. that on Wednesday he Wherever I

I looked, except for de-the occasion of his marriage. ploying Japanese, the only sign of wrote that since he was so sinbuily poo to land troops for an attack on gistered mul-that was being kept in life I could find was yellow eat or dealt with I shouldn't complain. the rear of the Chinese positions, an unnumbered hut in Lafehikok, skulking dog, as frightened as I.

Two steamers and scores of cement- and paid a visit to the hut. He saw faden Jurks have been sunk in the a girl sitting outside the main door. channel, which is now impassable. which was locked, looking dirty and

Thousands of Chinese refugees are dejected. stranded on the waterfront, unable The girl, whose name was Laing to sail from Shanghai, owing to the Tsan-yik, was examined by a lady closing of the Yangtse füiver to inspector, who saw a number of navigation. However, it is estimated marks on the lips, chin and check that 20,000 have left for South China which the girl said had been caused in the past 24 hours-Reuter.

by the defendant using lighted poper NANKOW ` IN HANDS

on her because she was disobedient, There were two circular marks OF JAPANESE around her wrists which had been made by string with which her hande had been Ued, and there were bruises on her arms and lega where she had been beaten with

a cane. bad been sold to the defendant for In February this year, the girl $25, and the woman claimed her as a grond-alece.

The

woman said that she had used lighted paper to frighten the girl, but when

she had brought it near the child's face, the girl tried to brush nway with her hands, and thus caused the burns to her face. De- fendant also declared that she had burned the girl's face as a treatment for an illness.

ly behind the lines of combat terri-TT. Shanghai fled refugees in a new and frantic T. T. Singapore exodus to the International Settle-T.T. Japan ment. That was the picture.

T.T. India T.T. U.S.A.

Pressing Forward Swiftly TT. Manila

TT. Bangkok TT. Batavia

Salgon

T.T. France T.T. Germany T.T. Switzerland TT, Australia

As fast as trucks returned empty from the front lines, they roured in- to the huge concrete and steel naval headquarters building to load and immediately started off again with. fresh munitions and fresh men.

The fact that the Japanese are; using tanks and mortars and setting fire to villages, indientes their deter- mination to press as far forward as 4 M/s. L/C London possible against the Chinese without 4 m/s. D/P Ho. waiting for reinforcements.

Dreadful Sights

A British officer, later on, one of the veterans of the, most horrible days of the Belgian fighting in 1914, told me he had seen sights on the fringe of the International Settle- ment to-day worse than those of that other war.

The panic has become very real now. after weeks of rumottes.

The guns are actually firing, Red Cross shelters are receiving the wounded. become partly rehabilitated from the This is war, in a city which has only

fast hostilities, Ove years ago.

The Japanese tell me that the Chinese forces now engaged are not the track Nanking troops, but Shanghul Peace Preservation Corps men. The Japanese also assert hos- tilities began because the Chinese fired with field artillery into the Japanese positions. The Japanese

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Nankow, Aug. 13. .5514 I hiked into this town to-day al- 15014 though it was necessary to follow .014 abandoned trench because of .B.18 casiona! rifle bullets, and arrived at

.50 p.m.. simultaneously with 1334 S.M.. armoured repair train 176 Peiping.

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The population Many shops have been looted persons unknown.

The shelling of August 11 damaged the railway, hotel and numerous ather buildings, and set fire to the ofl storage warehouse. vital points are not damaged.

However,

ATLANTIC FLIGHT

London, Aug. 13. The Inmperial Airways flying-bont One Caledonia Jeft Southampton for shell landed on the tracks in front Foynes Harbour to-day, preparatory of the station, tore up the rails and to her first daylight fight to New- blew in the station windows. There foundland.-Reuter Dulletin.

little evidence of any casualties. Evacuated August 11

FOR TREASON

Bremen, Aug. 13. Five men and a woman have been sentenced to terms of imprisonments ranging to two and a half years for "preparing for high treason" for pose of listening to Moscow radia forming a group for the alleged pur- stations in the house of a married pair-Reuter.

U.S. SUPREME COURT

Washington. Aug. 13. The Senate sub-committee; by five had forced the Chinese to retreat votes to one,"voted Immedate ap- westward, they claim.

proval of the nomination of Senator I saw no signs of Japanese planes, Black as Judge of the Supreme Court. which caused such destruction in Senator Smith (Republican) was the 1932-United Press,

only dissentient.--Reuter Bulletin.

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Chinese residents agree the Central August 11 and said the Japanese had Government troops left here

entered yesterday afternoon, though the Japanese say they look possession In the morning.

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guarded and utilised.

Half

a dozen big, locomo- tives are here for use on the steep Nonkow Pass grade. Rallwaymen evacuated with the Chinese troops.- United Press,

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