Little Hungarian Succeeds as Officials Fail Shanghai, Aug. 20
Here's a piquant tableau: the stately portals of the Shanghai Club, the Slrtiest ttle boy and the Mithist] Draco of dogs in all the city, a cheer-lees chicken and a cage of canaries who did not sing. On the wings of} the" scene, a sergeant of police and other foreign " bystanders "regarding the boy and. his -bedraggled crew with Tively admirailon and ineredul-Wy. Small wonder, for the bos, whose head barely' reached to their mid-way coat butions, was, our litre] Hungarian, Valentine" Holdos!, who, had just effected an amazing' single= Thanded rescue of his" pale from mnglszepoo when repeated efforts by ste SSP.CA. and Consular Dbearding for passes had failed.
On Friday the boy with the gypsy-right eyes and a mind ike qulcksilver had (old a stirring tale of his mother and himself trapped in near 'Thorburn Head, Yangtszepoo, for thir= teen frightening days of fighting and fire; of their fight and his subsequent pts to rescue his pets, two dogs chicken lett locked behind, 'Then, a ques was. hazarded that ome' avenue of rescue would occur to" the ferlileminded child, 1 did and Its "accomplishment -was ax] Ddyssey' of pluck, resource, endur-nce: a daring, resolute escapade and, Japanese]
Do or Die a do or die mood yesterday the] boy started off on foot irom his new home in the Concession. His. ofo friends had admitted failure, His pets had been without food or water for two and a half days. The powers that be had. frowned on his requests; they]
Yo be outflanked. He gave Garden Bridge a wide berth and. struck out} {for Nantao, Free of the Native City fand its terrified people, he made for dockyard where he had friends, He told his story and was ferried across to Pootung.
Only @ Chinese soldier or two wer to be seen in the deserted streets as hho trudged down to the point. Air raids? No, he did not think about them; he had lived through so many Yangtszepoo, "He wandered about a lifeless "waterfront. Checkmate] Again? No, there was' a launch Just casting off" "He wheedled his way] aboard, and Janded at the Shanghall Power Company's whart. People there! had other thoughts than Jetting adventurer stray out: into the tszepoo no-man's-land de urgent pleadings, "He wa boller room under the eye of an Tndlan watchman, but he was too hot on the scent for restraint. "There wa door and he. was out of It like 9 flash, "There followed a two and a halt ila walla through dangerous country with occasional doorway dodging as he saw Japanese soldiery.
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