A Hongkong paper following recently:— published the "Shanghai, August 17 (5.40 p.m.).—Julio Blaminck, a Belgian, who arrived at Cathay Mansions to-day. stated that he was the last guest to leave Broadway Mansions, where, he said, Japanese sailors, with. fixed bayonets, entered his room at 11 a.i to-day and ordered him to evacuate. They then took over the building United Press."
Mr. A S. Hersee the manager writes a contemporary:
It is desired, therefore, to acquaint Mr. Blaminck that the Japanese sailors have never taken over the building, they did not order him to evacuate his room and finally that under no stretch of his imagination can he claim the self-assumed distinction of being the last guest to leave.
Apart from those corrections. to which Mr. Hersee has drawn attention. the Test of Mr. Blaminék's. account seems to be correct, especially the full stop at the end. But surely Mr, Hersee could have said what he wanted in much fewer words. A real artist could have done it in one.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.