Word: truce
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...Shanghai tragedy ended with a quick curtain which remained down for four hours. Two men tugged the curtain down, negotiated with Japanese and Chinese officers the four-hour truce. Tugger Father Jacquinot is Rector of Shanghai's St. Francis Xavier College, lost an arm at Verdun, France. Tugger Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hayley Bell, retired, is British, indomitable...
...Chinese men, women and children escaped during the four-hour truce from the smoking ruins of Chapei, where they had somehow existed through the 17 days since the first Japanese shells and bombs set all Chapei afire...
Punctually the curtain rang up. Japanese and Chinese officials charged each other with having violated the four-hour truce in various ways. As the shells began to scream again, as the roar of bombing planes played its soft prelude to the thunder of bombs, act II began, and the first actor to speak was Rear-Admiral Toma Uematsu. commander of the Japanese naval landing forces...
...Never again," said this Japanese Admiral, ''will we agree to any such truce proposal. Never again...
When the four hour truce between Japanese and Chinese at Shanghai was called last week (see p. 21) officials hurried through the Woosung region hustling non-combatants to safety. They found a small hotel peppered with lead from both sides in the bombardment of the Woosung Forts. The vegetable garden adjoining it was pock-marked by shells. Within was the proprietor, a retired oldtime British navy officer named Capt. Frederick Davis who had operated the hotel for many years-the only white civilian remaining in the vicinity. His pet dog had disappeared; he had been living for days on such...