Among a number of volunteers and others: who are going to Europe to join the French forces and who left Shanghai on Monday was Father Jacquinot. He, himself, wilt not be Jol forces of his country, but he will devote his services to relief work, for Which he has become famous in this country. His los refugees in France who have been made vielims of German brutality in the swift attack on that country. The condition of these refugees no doubt pitiable, but could it be more pitifable than the condition of the tens of thousands of ignorant Chinese who. were the victims of the Shanghai hostilities? Father Jacquinot should bbe able to bring a wealth of tragic experience the assistance of his own countrymen, and needless 10 say, he will carry with him the best wishes of all his admirers in this part of the world. His work over many years is almost {00 well known to bear repeating. As far back 1027, he was a leader in attempting to reserve unfortunate Chinese who had fallen victims to the incessant wars which were being waged Between different. Chinese generals in the provinces of Kiangsu and Chekiang. A Rolable feat of those days associated him with the present Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, Viscount Gort, and with the then British Consul-General, Sit Sidney Barton, who was British Minister in' Addis Abbaba before and during the, Italian war: against Abyssinia. These three men courageously walked down Paoshan Road, between the fire of the White Russians employed by Chang Chung-chang, who were trapped in their armoured (rain in the North Station, and the "black gown" Nationalists who virtually. took Shanghai for Gen. Chiang Kal-shek while his troops were fully thirty miles away from the city. The three of them managed to save the pupils of a Catholic convent who had been caught in the area of hostilities, Father Jacqui not also tole a leading part in the establishment of the refugee zone in Nanto which resulted in the saving of ing the 1037 Nghting zone has lasted until today, when talk has begun about its abolition, now that the situ tion in the city's environs seems to have been more or less stabilized, A champion of meres, Father Jacquinot's of' as been cast in. the cornellest places; there could be few duties more painful to him, a veteran of the last world war, than ministering to the victims of this latest German invasion.
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