The Hague, Oct. 6.
The KIM Royal Dutch Airways "plane Specht crashed to-day near Palembang, in Sumatra. The passengers and crew are apparently safe. Reuter. there the British soldiers Worked south along North Kiangse Road, tacking wire on houses evacua While Chinese troops hold the ill. fated Pantheon Theatre, on the north side of Range Road, the Japanese hi front line is but a few yards away: a sandbag barricade thrown across Range Road. Farther east, at the intersection of Range Road and North Szechuen Road, is another, more substantial Japanese barricade, likewise across Range Road. Street fighting in the block between North Kiangse and North Szechuen Roads is a daily occurrence and recently the Pantheon Theatre was stormed and held for a while by the Japanese.
Immediately below Pillbox "A" ihe British troops have erected à massive redoubt on which the Welch Fusiliers were still working yesterday. It stands but a few yards from the first Japanese line, and the British soldiers manning it frequently observe the exchange of fire between the Chinese and Japanese forces. The burned-out shell of the Settlement school for Chinese—which was said to have been used by Chinese snipers—stands gaunt and naked east of the Pantheon Theatre, no longer a menace to the Japanese.
The Welch Fusiliers had their first casualty since their reoccupation of the West Hongkew sector yesterday. It occurred at noon at the north end of North Honan Road, "Windy Corner," where a shell burst and scattered fragments on all sides. Fusilier Williams, on duty there, struck in the face by a piece of the shell which cut his lips. He was treated by a medical officer at his company headquarters and his condition is described as not serious.
Looters continue to give the police considerable trouble in West Hongkew. Patrols of regular and special policemen keep a watch for them both day and night Curfew in the Gistrict still starts at 6 p.m.
From his native country, Germany. has come the sad news that Dr. med. ap, away on September 19, Fred Wendt, Marine Generaloberarzt
Dr. Wendt was taken ill at Hankow during the spring of this year and, after medical treatment in Shanghai, decided in June, accompanied by Mrs. Wendt, to go by sea to Germany being full of hope to find healing of is grave malady in his native country, but providence resolved otherwise, Doctor Wendt, born in Berlin on December 22, 1878, was Surgeon-Major-General in the Imperial German Navy when in 1914 he returned home from Tsingtao and participated with high honours in the Great War, at the close of which he retired from {he Navy having been promoted to Marine-Generaloberarzt a.D.
He took up his domicile at Hankow in 1821 and established himself there as a medical practitioner. During the long and uninterrupted period of his local activity Dr, Wendt gained the esteem of Chinese circles as well as of the foreign communities, and his many friends will deeply deplore the loss of an upright man and distinguished physician. All of them will always bear him in grateful affectionate remembrance and will sincerely sympathize with his widow, Mrs. Frida Wendt, and his son Ralf, both of whom were with him in Germany as the time of his death.
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