| Show p p I Will While IP Film Flames P licked t their ier heels heck These refugees fled from the LUJO 1 o 0 District near Shanghai and sought protection on the outskirts outskirts out out- I I skirts of the international settlement This and other pathetic scenes of war-torn war I II I I China were witnessed by Miss Helen Foster lower right formerly of Salt Lake LakeI 1 I and now in Shanghai The picture and Miss Fosters Foster's eye witness account of battle battie bat- bat 1 tie tle area appear exclusively in today's Telegram 0 u r rS 1 1 54 4 c S 9 z q k wt ArG S. S L L. Girl in Shanghai Relates Thrills E. E c Tells of Horrors in iii Letter Recounts Modern Evangeline Story Thrills a foreigner experiences in war torn Shanghai were mingled with the horrors of battle in an eye witness witness witness wit wit- ness account of the Sino-Japanese Sino conflict con con- filet in China received here Thursday from Miss Helen Foster formerly of Salt Lake and Cedar City Miss Foster who resigned as secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary to A. A G. G Mackenzie secretary of the Utah chapter of the American Mining congress last July is now managing an advertising syndicate in Shanghai A modern version of Longfellow's Evangeline was recounted by Miss Foster as she told how husbands and wives wives mothers mothers and children were children were separated as panic stricken refugees fled from the wracked bomb-wracked Chapel district while flames which turned their cottages into blazing infernos licked their heels SEES FLEE The day the thc picture was taken about refugees evacuated Chapel Chapel Cha Cha- pel pei along this road which is near the hc Shanghai railway Shanghai Miss Foster said in the letter written February 6 They turned around occasionally t to o see the flames rising hundreds of feet in the air where once peaceful cottages stood In the Chapel district district dis dIs- dis- dis which was the densest populated ed part of Shanghai Shanghai approximately approximately people lived there there practically all were compelled to leave They snatched what they could of ot their household belongings and fled Continued on Pate Pare Seventeen S t I I I S. S S L L. GIRL SEES SHANGHAI WAR Continued From Pa Page Pae e Eleven Old women and children were sometimes sometimes some some- times found sitting alone beside the road separated from their families and arid too dozed dazed and too tired tred to talk Whatever vehicles were available for tr transportation were used The wheelbarrow is the favorite used Licensed wheelbarrow pushers pushers and and there really are such in Shan Shanghai Shanghai and hal and and rick rick- sha men found themselves in possession posses posses- sion Lion of small smal fortunes at the high bids received for their services CARRY CAREY POSSESSIONS Most of al C the men carried traditional tradition I al bamboo sticks over their shoulders loaded on each end with wih all al they could carry Bedding was as the principal item iem and food and clothing were tucked awa away in baskets Occasionally a sewing machine went past on a wheelbarrow or cart cart This is one of the most priceless things any Chinese can own The pitiful predicament of the half half- haI- haI starved refugees who clung cung to the borders of Shanghais Shanghai's international settlement in the hope hop of escaping the shells which rocked the area also was told by Miss Foster Most of the refugees she said flocked for protection into th the boundaries boun boun- daries o of the international settlement which already is densely populated with wih people The streets were thronged with these poor straggling wayfarers 1 homeless helpless and weary weary for for many days I Hospitals and places of refuge In Inthe inthe the thc settlement were overflowing Church buildings were used for shel shel- ter Private families took in the relatives rela rela- tives of their servants Even office ofie buildings were utilized Missionaries of oC foreign forein countries were particularly active as the Chapel district of Shanghai Shang hai ha was unfortunately the principal Christianized district of of the native Chinese Chinee city city We dont don't know what is going to happen here in Shanghai Shanghai Miss Foster Foster Fos Fos- ter said in conclusion but it i is ver very thrilling The infantry is here and 17 of ot the soldiers are arc on jn the eighth floor foor of this building so soI soI I think we foreigners are arc safe |
