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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY ~ FEBRUARY

EYE-WITNESS S DECRIBES CHINA'S HOLOCAUST: 1,600 DIED A MINUTE

GETS NEW BLOOD SUPPLY

By an intricate operation, n 50-years-old Dundee man has been "given a now heart" and was reported to be "progressing very well."

I had been suffering from angina pectoris, which is caused| through failure of blood supply to the heart.

Mr. Francis R. Brown performed! the operation in the Dundee Royal Infirmary

Mr. Brown made an opening in the patient's diaphragm-the big|

usele which divides the body across the middle-brought up fatty tissue, which has an ample blood supply, and stitched it on to the heart..

Shartly new velns will form, and an alternative blood supply to the heart will develop,

Sui-

An infirmary, official' told the day Dispatch that the patient's con- dition is giving every satisfaction,

"Although we have had no experi~| ence of this type of operation in

e," he added, "we are confiderit! Dundee," the man will make a complete re- covery.

'SHAPELY LEG-"EXHIBIT A"

San Francisco.

In a $50,000 damage sult-resuiting| from a bio by an English bulldog, Miss Lorraine Llewellyn was obliged] to introduce a rather shapely leg inj court as "Exhibit A

RECALLED TO JAPAN

GENERAL MATSUI, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Forces North China, who has been recalled to Japan.

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AMERICAN STORY OF SHAI CARNAGE

Dy H. R. Ekins.

right, 1930, by United Press)

New York, Feb. 15.

I flew from Now York to Shanghai last July to join the United Press staff covering the Chinese-Japanese hostilities which had started outside Peiping the night of July 7.

Our editors in New York believed these hostilities would develop into a major war. They did and I found" myself in the midst of the starkest human tragedy that I have experienced in covering wars around one half the world.

I reached Hankow early in taken into the Central Chinese Gov- August.

ernment after, the war sinrted,

countryside,

could not be walked upon.

„It: is designed to destroy everything Hankow is known as the destroyable in the path of the enemy's "Chicago" of China. It is advance so that he cannot live off the sprawling, steaming city on the • I saw grain crops levelled; farm great Yangtse. Rivar "und for houses burned, buildings, dynamited, centuries the army which con-bridges destroyed, and even footpaths trols it has been the strategic gashed with great holes so that they master of Cathay:

I saw the painfully dredged ship channel of the Whongpoo River block- I went to Hunkow because ed with sunken ships Alled with believed that it would be the best

stones. base for travel to those parts of

I saw commerce stopped on China where the most important bat-

mighty Yangise River” which ties of the war would be fought,

¡ centuries 'has been greatest commer- Fortunately (or unfortunately-de-clal highway of all Ching-the trans- pending on one's point of view) anport route over which food supplies old case of one of those illnessrs move for 100,000,000 people, which beset so many people who have lived long in lands where disease is prevalent, was brought back by the steaming heat of a mid-summer on the ancient central China plain, and had to return to Shopghal to my doctor.

tho

for

I saw children starve when thesoj food supplies were cut off..

I went into North China. The dikea along the rivers there, built by the toll of generations of

were broken and the turned into muddy takes dotted with mounds of rotting grain

fields

I got put on the last passenger-Tientsin was a shell of the

Boy city plane which left the city and reach-I had known a few years ago when ed Shanghai Just in time to be at the if was my headquarters. Pller of Palace Hotel when it was bombed by crushed bricht, and pleeds of broken Chinese Biers trying to strike at the concrete, were all that was left of Japanese.

buildings I used to frequent.

That was Salurday."

Shanghai's "Bloody

Three Chinese aerlat bomba killed ut least 1,000 people including Americane-in the space of one minute.

All these people were clvilians. Not one soldier was hit. They were the children, the men, and the wo- ment of a great city who were going about the netivities of everyday lié Just as any other people go about their everyday activities in the middle of any day in any large city in the world,

They were the victims of modern, mechanized war.

Two bombs crashed through the Palace and Cathay hotels on the crowded Shanghal waterfront.

Another bomb crashed at the intersection of Avenue Edward VII and Tibet Road. That bomb alons

I heard a description of war from broken Chinese soldiers who were. Invalided" from the front. They whispered of men who were chained to their machine guns so that they could not cease, firing when they were assigned to cover retreat. They told of officers who enforced abedience with automatic pistols.

They Insist On Getting Me Wrong, Avers Mae

MAE WEST, who has been under

"Adam and

kited more than 1,000 people. It tors Mrs for her appearance as Eve a crater in the road into which one in the broadcast skit could put a small-sized railway car. Eve," atrenuously denied that she It mangled hundreds of children, wo-had any intention of saying anything men, and men beyond recognition. to hurt the susceptibilities of her

Indicative of the destructiveness of explosives, I saw the bodies of people who had been killed, simply by concussion. Every bit of clothing had been blown from the bodies,

I went into the countryside.. Death struck there with the samo! effectiveness that it sruck in the cit-:

audience.

Speaking over the long-distance telephone from her home at Holly- wood in a voice tinged more with sadness than with anger, she told the Dally Mall New York correspondent: "I KNOW WHAT'S VULGAR" "I wouldn't do anything to hurt religion. I go to church myself. I Japanese and Chinese planes cume am sull convinced there was noth over high in the skies, circled, and ing objectionable in the skit. Other came down in screaming power dives, The bombs came from them almost as accurately as shells came from field guns.

les.

INDESCRIBABLE DESTRUCTION Columns of men simply dissolved into fragments. of torn flesh.

Houses disappeared, in clouds of

dust which settled over the bodies of the form families that had been in them.

I went into Chapel.

I had seen Chapel-one of the principal Industrial areas of the Shanghal Chinese city destroyed be- fore, during the Chinese Japanese {hostilities of 1932.

The destruction then was almost as nothing compared to this destruction. It was a grim example of the speed with which the effectiveness of ex- plosives is being developed.

I went to Woosung,

wise I would not have played in it.”

Mae feels that others who were responsible for putting the skit on the wireless have, as she said, "Let the lady down."

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But she admitted that her te mendous popularity would be sufl- clent to account for the concentrated fire to which she has been subjected. "I know what's vulpar and what lan't," she exclaimed. "I make fun of vulgarity but people insist on getting me wrong. They read into things I say something not there. "This is what happened. I was naked to act as Eve to Don Amecho's Adam. I went to the studio and was handed the script, which I read in front of the mike. I never changed

word.

"No one was more astonished than when the furore broke out,

I prefer to leave my case in the hands

Whatever some Puritans may say,

Woosung is really a part of Sliang-of the great American publle, It hat a sort of port suburb at the refuses to condemn me, s. I know confluence of the Whangpoo and from latters received." Vangtse Rivers north of Shanghai's "But," I remarked, here is the International Settlement.

suggestion that it was not so much

1 saw the same things I had seen in what you said as the way you sald Nanking Tood, in: Avenue Edward "Well," she replied, "I can't help VII at the fighting front in the coun-

try, and in Chapel, *****

my voice. After all, that's one thing

I saw children, women, and men oven the censors can't take away

dle in hundreds. ; vele from me.”..

Many of thein' were

ins The Inmous film star hopes, if con

pieces too widely scattered to make tracia permit, to visit England this possible à decent burlaten

Some of those who lived through the continuous series of attacks and counter-attack were left with "only kumpa - for!:: limbs. Others; wers

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