Sustains Fractured Rib and Internal Shock: Car Overturns on Way to Shanghai Madame Chiang Kai-shek hai been confined in her home in Shanghai during the past week suffering from fa fractured. rib and internal shock, the *North-China Daily News" Tearned on October 29, Madame Chiang, who returned to Nanking on ct. 26, sustained her injuries on the road between Nanking and Shanghai on October 23 when a tyre blew out on the car in which she was travelling to Shanghat and she was flung onto the road.
The accident occurred while Madame Chiang was making one of her periodical inspections of the by a accident Madame insisted on continuing the journey to the fight. Ing lines which were reached at 10 pam. There she observed the system in use to get the wounded and spent. an hour passing through the dust and the heavy movements of trucks and troops: behind the ines, reaching Shanghai about 11 pm—seven hours after her violent experience.
Upon arrival at Shanghai a doctor was immediately summoned. "He was able to declare that Madame had fortunately escaped serious injury, though in addition to being bruised and very much shaken, she plained of pain that indicated a fractured rib. X-rays were taken the next day which revealed that a rib had been broken, and this compelled Madame to rest for a few. days before undertaking the return Journey by car to Nanking.
Mr, Donald states that Madame had "a most providential escape because, if she had been thrown out. towards the other side of the road, she would almost certainly have struck a car just then passing or fallen on the metalled portion of the road, either of which would hav meant serious injury if not instant death, Madame Chiang Returns to Nanking Nanking, Oct, 20. ume. Chiang Kalesheke Madame Chiang Kat-shab panied by Mr. W. Hf, Donald, advise {fo the Generalissimo, returned safely to Nanking from Shanghai this after. noon-—Reuter, Chinese fighting front. As a rule such trips—because of the Japanese practice of bombing any motor Vehicle they see on the off-chance of. killing an important military ofciat—have to be made at night, Without Tights, on roads tom 10 (atters by heavy" traffic and pockmarked with bomb-holes. "Madame Chiang, "however, essayed to take the extra risk of day travel. though it meant speeding at over G0 miles fan hour on roads none too safe at thirly miles an hour in order to get over the danger zone in the quick-fest time possible.
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