1938-02-07 — Page 3

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY

1938.

NATIVE CITY IS "SHAI'S SORROW"

CHAPEI RUINED

BEYOND REPAIR;

FATE IN DOUBT

By EDWARD BEATTIE

United Press Staff Correspondent.

Shanghai, Jan. 30.

TWO and a half months of bitter block-to-block warfare reduced Chapei from a prosperous Chinese business community to hundreds of acres of forlorn ruins.

Hardly a house between Soochow Creek on the south- west and the open country which begins several miles to the east can be renovated and used again as dwelling, shop or storehouse, it would seem.

Each, save a handful miraculously spared from bombs, bullets and shell fire, must be razed if not already leveled, and built anew.

Bombs have blown buildings apart, leaving only a corner or! a fragment of wall standing. Machine-gun fire during the bitter; street, fighting literally ate away the fronts of buildings, pul- verized their inside walls and reduced their furnishings to many piles, of rubbish. What the fighting failed to destroy, the fire set by retreating Chinese turned into desolation,

Impassive Japanese troop

stationed throughout the district

have cleared the bodies from the IS LORETTA

streets, but to attempt even to sweep them clean would have required half of Gen. Iwane Mat- sui's Shanghai army,

of

The streets. remain a welter fallen telephone poles, electric wires,

A BRIDE?

Hollywood.

80

Loreith Young was seen wearing

twisted water pipes blasted up from a wedding ring. under the surface where Japanese

bombs and shell fire tore away the

So the rumours that she recently

pavement. House fronts which fell in went through a secret inarriage were

onc

piece from the force of the ex-al once redoubled,

plosions obstruct what little troffe The star, herself, when questioned, Roof tiles are 'everywhere. What laughed, and said the ring was just

cares to use the thoroughfares.

survived best are sandbag redoubts built by the Chinese defenders, and concrete pli- the occasional solld

ja Rag."

ROMANCE RUMOUR

But since Alice Faye's so-called boxes, slotted for machine guns and equipped with electrle light and over-friendship ring turned out to be Japanese really an engagement sparkler few stuffed chairs, which the

easily been convinced say the Chinese built long before the have war in violation of a demilitarization Loretta. agreement,

by

Last year Loretta was persistently

Damage is said to be three times rumoured engaged to Eddie Suther- as great as it was in the 1932 war.land, the director. from which Chapel had hardly

covered.

11 MILES OF TRENCHES

TC-

.

Mure recently, however, she has been seen around with Joseph Man- ciewioz-and it is to him she is said

Where the open country begins, to be married. and with it a trench system which strelches 11 miles to Tuzang, every

house has been damaged to a greater redoubt in a counter-attack which or less extent. Splintered trees and cost 15. of them their lives. abandoned barbed

wire barriendes

Loodless Chapel, Tokyo,"

do! the Relds. A few. stray dogs and In Hongkew, Shonghol's "Little

cats, driven from

watch the impassive, chubby Japan-Chinese

corate them with flowers.

UFS]

PRESIDENT BAGS ONE-This huge lynx, reported one of the largest over to come to gun in Poland, was brought down by Ignacy Mosclckl, 70-year-old President of the Republie, when he went hunting. recently, in the vast state forest at Bielowieza. Poland is one of the few countries whose forests still harbour an

abundance of bears, bours, lynx, wolves and uther animals.

Life Sentence On

"Magnetic" Parson

Pittsfield, Illinois.

SENTENCE of life imprisonment has been passed on the "magnetic parson," the Rev. Ellsworth Newton, a frail Baptist minister, found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Maybelle Kelly, aged 45, during a "whoopee ride" in a car.

Unseen Women's

Secret

Three mysterious women, known i target of

artillery, as the "Secret Sisters," are puzzling

which

Was

and bombers

2:00n

was

de-

Newton, aged 51, scribed by police as "a god to women," and was said to have had affairs with many of his parishioners.

EMPIRE NEWS

100 MAROONED IN FLOODED MINE

Cape Town.

A cloudburst, which flooded the Unsement of a hoist room at the Wel- gedacht Mine, Johannesburg, resulted In 100 miners being marooned under- ground, European workers were stranded for 18 hours and natives for 21 hours. The machinery was put out of action.

Rain turned the surrounding conn- tryalde into a luke, the torrent filling the basement of the holat room to a depth of eft.

The fire brigade was six hours pumping out the water, and the stranded men were brought up this afternoon after an all-night wait in the mine.

Gen, Hertzog's Health.The health of Gen. Hertzog, the Prime Minister, who is on holiday at his farm near Premier Mine, bas much Improved. He has had 18 teeth extracted, and hopes to take an active part in the General Election.

£500,000 Estate Mr. Isane Och- berg, the Cape Town financier, who died at sen on Saturday, while on his way from London, has left estate' valued at about £500,000. He be- queathed large sums to charity, most- ly Jewish, and gave £10,000 to the University of Cape Town for scholar- ships for students of all races.

Record Maize Exports-The most successful season for the export of maize that Cape Town has had came to an end at midnight, through the Government ban. Since the end of May nearly 500,000 tons of maize have been exported in 57 specially chartered ships.

INDIA

NEW SHERIFF OF

..CALCUTTA

Calcutta.

Mr. Stephen C. Lyttelton, senior partner in India of Gillanders, Ar- buthnot und Co., has been appointed Sheriff of Chieutin.

Mr. Lyttelton was born 1: 1887. late Right the youngest son of the

Rev. the Hon. Arthur Lyttelton, Bl- shop of Southampton.

He served in the Navy throughout the war, was mentioned in despatches and was awarded the O.B.E., D.S.C. and the Croix de Guerre.

Hindu Temple for London.--The Maharaja of Tripura has promised to- defray the cost of building a Hindu temple in London. It will cost about £53,000. He helped Mirs, Kelly, a wealthy woman, to flee from her "un | AUSTRALIA happy" home. After a wild ride Newton battered

would not elope with him. Mrs. Kelly on the head with hammer and thrown her body into the Mississippi. -In-court-however, he accused his faster-daughter of having engineered

In a confession he said he had t

ese troopers erect little wooden signs ; damage is still evident; the shops, the people of the Kent seaside resort her to death after she decided she} to mark the spots where the Arst however, are reopening, restaurants Birchington-on-Sea.

They are believed to live in n bar- landing party members fell, and deserve suklynki, geisha Firls, non-ricaded house near Minnis Bay, and

from Japan. promenade in the Hongkew

will be the only visitor to the house is a a day sun. Japanese say that there, along

man who leaves food there-outside section of line possibly a half mile normal.

"Chapel's best-chance-of-returning..the door.. long. 80 Japanese infantrymen off 30,000 indecisive Chinese a few to normalcy seemingly will be if it, hundred yards distant, and 20 Japan-100, becomes a "Little Tokyo," as ese threw an attack of 10,000 intonany believe it will when Japan confusion by springing from their states the terms of pence.

They receive no letters, and trades- men do not call. Though the food left at the door disappears, no one has ever seen the door open.

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the crime.

Prosecuting counsel told the jury: It is your duty to send this man to the electric chair. I demand. it be fore God."

But the jury recommended life in- prisonment.

Many frenzled women tried to enter the court, screaming that Newton was innocent,

He has rceived dozens of lavish presents from women.

OVER-SUBSCRIBED LOAN

Sydney. 1 Mr. R. G. Casey, Federal Treasurer, announcing the over-subscription of by £8,000,000 internal loan the

£152,000,-the-largest over subscrip tion since the depression, expressed the opinion that the most welcome feature was the further increase in Sub- the number of small investors. seribers numbered 7,550, compared with 7,372 in April.

The progressive recovery of wool prices brought back a firm tone to the Stock Exchange after several

toys' weakness.

Estate for Ex-Service Men--The estate of Dame Eadith Walker, who October, has dled at the beginning been sworn for probate at £265,340 -Australian. Dame Endith left £18,900 to charities, and the resi- dunry estate was divkied between the returned soldiers and the Sailors' Im- perial League of Australia. All er Hands are left to the Red Cross Society.

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