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Show CHINESE WAR IS Oil NJ HftTIOH -CASUALTiES ARE TERRIFIC AS FIGHTING CONTINUES ALONG ENTIRE FRONT Artillery; Bombing Planes and Machine Ma-chine Guns Continue Bomb-bardment; Bomb-bardment; Warships Are Assisting Shanghai, The fiercest battle ot modern China's history raged along the entire Shanghai front last week. Chi Hsieh Yuan's troops attacked first, hurling back Chekiang forces, who made gains in a surprise attack Saturday, but before long the battle assumed such intensity, it seemed both sides were on the offensive. Artillery, bombing planes and machine gun fire kept up a terrific bombardment that shook Shanghai. Lu Yuan Hsiang claimed advances at Kiating and Malu, while the Kiangsu forces were hammering at Liuho, aiming to capture the Woosung Woo-sung forts. The liner Empress of Australia, lying at Woosung, was hastily brought up the river, fearing a naval na-val attack. Nanking warships ware pouring shell fire into Liuho. The casualties were terrific and stench of unburied dead twelve miles from Shanghai drifted penetratingly penetra-tingly over the city. A plague was threatened. American destroyers were rushed back to Woosung and sailors enjoying enjoy-ing shore leave were ordered to their ships at once. Shanghai, Hundreds of Chinese soldiers were killed and many others wounded on a six-mile front from Nansiang to Malu. According to a witness who returned return-ed after traversing the sector from Nansiang to Malu, west of Shanghai, both sides were drenching the lines with shrapnel. Numerous relief stations behind the six-mile Chekiang front were filled with wounded, while scores of others were arriving on stretchers. The offensive which has resulted in continuous firing since it opened on Saturday morning, has enabled the Chekiang forces to drive the Kiangsu troops back six miles, according to General Hsia Chao-Lin, commander of the Chikiang forces in the center of activity. -M-t-f4--H"H"f4-4"H-4"H-4-Mm' MAKING GOOD IN A SMALL TOWN Real Stories About Real Girls By MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN 1924, Western Newspaper Cnlon.) TEACHING FOREIGN-BORN TO SPEAK "AMERICAN" making good means mak-iug mak-iug money, try teaching foreigners foreign-ers to speak the English language. Ambitious foreign born men, anxious anxi-ous to mate good In business ; foreign born mothers, whose children are growing away from them with the adoption of a new tongue; foreigners who can't speak n word of English and foreigners who merely want to improve their speech all these will be your prospective pupils. So says a girl who, after graduation gradua-tion from college, spent n- .rly a year wondering "what on earth" she could do, since she didn't want to teach In the public schools, In her home town. "The fact that there is a large element ele-ment of foreign born people In here gave me my idea," ehe told me. "And I've made a good Income ever since I started 'on my own' to give these people private lessons in English." Since every small town Is a part of the "melting pot" which is America, Amer-ica, no matter where a girl lives, she Is almost sure to find a good number of the foreign born who flock yearly to onr shores. Here are her pupils. As for desks, chairs, chalk, blackboards black-boards and other customary schoolroom school-room accessories, she needs none of these to be "school ma'am" in this kind of school. The lessons are all private ones, and may be given at the pupil's own home. The would-be teacher should advertise adver-tise for her pupils In the local papers. To those who answer the advertisement, advertise-ment, she may say that the charge for each two-hour lesson Is three dollars, dol-lars, and that two a week will probably prob-ably be satisfactory. Of course, sh may vary the price to meet the local situation. She should supply herself with good text books, and should keep her advertisement running. If she obtains, ob-tains, eventually, more pupils than she can manage, she may then branch out and hire other teachers to assist her. However big her business grows, she should never give group lessons Instead of private ones, for It Is the element of privacy that will make her venture a success. The foreigner who has been backward in learning his English does not want to1 display his ignorance before a class. He wants private lessons. Even If the teacher should organize a class and persuade him to join, he will, in most cases, soon drop out. There are very few towns where the foreign element in the population is negligible and the girl who does happen to live In such a town should go into something else. But for the girl whose "Main Street" has Its foreign for-eign sections, the risk Is small, the possibilities great. |