of Ruins hom of hostilities in the immediate thave. taken advantage the various battle can. There and desolation that war car vice three Shavighai twaines the grim evidence
picked up our friend in her We, Shahgha at 2.20 a.m, Folet nnd set oat for" Kiangwan. As we neared station and race: course we could see shell holes the" ground and many traces' of shells: Some dosd bodies of var points: reminded us" of the Someness of war and the inevit suffering st entails'on non-combat.
the station axew: yailway coach rains, "what car and drove by the Kiaw all they sane during the trip:
lien of soldiere—everyukere fourteen years old. In a shell hole lay one who had died biting his. hand in agony. The trenches ran through a bamboo grove. How: lovely the grove was in the fresh spring morning and what gruesomeness lay at our feet!
Two fine old ancestral graves with tablets had been used by the soldiers for cover and trenches made, these showed evidence of ferelen dvetion in their contra: through the ted ere at the ign. yingehen we passed where japanese gave it lives to break the wire for fully' pretty' litre iti, She has a of dignity for one so small, igh smile and an innate sense While staying in Windsor recently, she took " course of music les sons and, when in town, is often to be seen at' the Children's Concerts, held on Saturday mornings in the Gentral "Hall, Westminster She delighted with these outings are "any "other of those who attend there in vast numbers with their parents of school teachher baby sister, the ret Rose, T hear is 'She is' to practice daily in, the privacy of the small strip of lawn belonging to the Duke of York's house in Pibeadilly, and can already toddle a few st Squash rackets seems to be now the game for women. In the Ladies' Championship, which re-fe ently took place at Queen's Club, the entry was nearly double that fof, previous years. The secret of Success in this sport is to start young. Miss Susan Noel, who be-Zomes champion this year, certainly did so. She had her first, training fat the age of eight. At a says so; but an Old Queen's man declared that she started even fore that.
This year's tournament was a battle of dress styles as well as a battle of prowess. Shall the game be played in shorts, trousers or the fold fashioned skirt?
There were on view at the however, wore barelegged and hi armed. "Par from being " agai shorts," Miss Noel's trouble is she has, tried them but cannot play, in them so well. "They look bet body, of 9 Chinese soldier—we wondered who had had placed them written along the map nughfare and conveys the many changes taken place there.
one of the most modern London homes, that of Mrs, Dudley Ward in St. John's Wood, whole walls are of mirror glass." Every it of metal, from door handles to window hasps, is of the stainless variety. An amusing decoration in the white and silver hall is a great giraffe, made from plaited straw.
London is still hard at work chi longing Paris for the lead in, the world of doess fashion. And Lo don, to judge by recent fashion di plays (of which there seems to end this. season) is proving. formidable rival. But this. rivalry appears to be so friendly that, at times, both'London and Paris agree [to sponsor the same fashion, For' instance, both have agreed upon the length of spring and summer dresses. For day wear, they say, skirts are to be distinctly shor ter, costumes the shortest and coat frocks an inch longer. Dressy frocks are to be in inch or so longer still, and evening frocks should well cover the ankle. Tailor mades, it should be remembered, should nicely leaver the knee, whether the wears is sitting down. or standing Fullness in a skirt must spring bout "ten inches from the hem, the wat of the skirt being as tubular las possible, with the aid of gores, pleats, or inset godets The fashion of the high, Empire waist is making slower progress, in London than in New York, lyon the stage, Jand at, hi wear the average for the normal waistline. [great complaint against: this. style "Of dress ix that itis. rather nig; dressy. in its base, but, still standing and min. a certain. feminine member the ails in front of the BE Shanghai society to make these chatted. skeleton: columns "a bit more snappy. compound the Statue of Sun Yat-Bomething along the lines of the sen with the neck and face blown gossip column in the " London By-Off stood amidst piles of wreckage. Stander, you know" I must forbear.
Villages close by were burned reply to. this. request I wil, the ground and 'a mission station however, make' two statements.
Was riddled and wrecked by shells Hrstly, that I will do my best to and bullets, A rumply' with it, but to a limited 'At Kiangwancken the desolation fen Deeause, Tvatog, my, peace mind. secondly, I wil apparent, everywhere sargo parts apparent, every7# clude this little digression with had been' wrecked by sbell fire and reference to an age-old maxim—burned. At one corner' leg stick-the one that reminds those people ing out of the ground and an arm Who happen to be living in' glass. a little further on showed that all houses, that they cannot throw the inhabitants had not evacuated stones with impurity.
"Another cocktail party. is sche-we progressed further into before hostilities commenced. open country more and more of the this week. "And the reason for it ule 29 "eke placo"on Exiday of small places were burned to the Also not tin connected with the state ground and a few charred bodies Of holy matrimony, "Will you come were lying amidst the ruins. We fo my intimate scram" said the pro-walked along by the trenches, Spective hostess informally. to her Where the dead were lying in some more intimate friends. And the laces three deep. What struck us Jatter immediately understood. that most was the youthfulness of the they were to attend targe funesoldiers; one looked no more than their comrades advance. On the site side of the creek from the lines trenches were the Japanese telephone wires and close by. in the water lay the body of a Chinese" soldier who had crossed the creek under cover of night to cut the Japanese wires, but, had tore and why they were left ie Getting back to where we' left the car, we returned the way. We came until we struck ¢he new food fo" Woosung into which we turned. On the way we met many signs fof the Japanese occupation until we arrived at Chang Wa Pang and freon' cut down in" the attempt [Ne bridge There' he lay-unsang-—unhonoured oilway ridge and the road bridge over the. creek" The a Heir tual acy ihe oes Ear het ated el "The ordnance had been struck by "hat avery brave tin. A litle Seing Yestresed, the Japanese had a shell and bundles. of. soldiers Fay Sader up the "crak was Dae thee boat witha fand child and on the end of the Chinese tian, words allowed to crocs as en, but we wae, a tething "scattered in overy"diree: land mines lay beyond, {and nines fa om "As we stood on the sea wall and boat flew a Japanese flag.
We returned to, the Harbour Entering a temple in one of the Master's house and found a Iaunch looked "over the." Woosung country one living thing was to be seem. images, we found trenches and to take us to Woosung, first hav-, Burned houses, villages and stark signs tha it had been occupied by desolation everywhere, i shells had tug obtained Japanese: permission woosung village was in ruins, as We, visited the, College of Devt we saw in passing. The Harbour, Sea Products and found it in Master's pier had been destroyed Gerrible. mess, shells had atruck 1 but a small piece broken in two a great deal of damage, Speci several pees, but lid not done managed to, negotiate. by a shell remained and. this, we And books littered the floor "and unt as we were our Master's house was demolish-oth inside and out ware dug oura. Trside lay underneath the body of ed, the Doctor's house in rains, Officer and on top the Bellevue hotel no more, the Light house struck, atd an encrinus hole tion prohibited without permission.
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