Sherbrooke daily record, 13 août 1937, vendredi 13 août 1937

[" îass i -\u2014_ i §hprbrnokp Sfrnrà Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, CANADA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1937.Forty-First Year.OPEN WARFARE BREAKS AT SHANGHAI Land Batteries In Exchange Of Shells With Naval Vessels Large Area of Shanghai Reported in Flames Following Bitter Engagement-Chinese Believed to Have Penetrated Eastern Section of City and Expelled Japanese.RECORD TO INTRODUCE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE Beginning tomorrow the Record will publish a weekly page of special appeal and interest to children.This is another feature service which the Record is giving to its readers.The Children\u2019s Page on Saturday will, the Record feels confident, meet with strong appeal and its contents will afford interesting and helpful reading for the younger people during the week-end.It is the hope of the Record publishers that the young folk will find this page interesting.It is their own page.POLICE ON GRIM TRAIL OF DEATH OF OLD FOLKS Shanghai, August 13.\u2014Japanese naval guns and Chinese and Japanese land batteries pumped hundreds of shells into their opposing forces in open Shanghai warfare last night.An artillery duel along the northern fringe of the city set fire to scores of buildings in the Chinese Kiangwan and Chapei areas.A etrong wind threatened a holocaust like that of 1932.A Japanese warship bombarded the newly-built Si,300,000 Jukong Wharf on the left bank of the Whangpoo river, midway between Shanghai and Woosung.Unconfirmed reports said Japanese warships were shelling the Woosung forts, which guard the Whangpoo entrance to Shanghai by water.Two Chinese divisions were reported under orders to take up positions at Woosung.This is ten miles from Shanghai proper.Two huge fires broke out in the vicinity of the bombarded wharf.The flames lit up Shanghai\u2019s eastern districts.One witness said he believed Chin- jXr________________________________ ese had penetrated the area and expelled the Japanese.Others considered this unlikly.Heavy firing broke out tonight in the vicinity of Japanese headquarters at Hongkew, just north of the international zone.It was believe the Japanese battery at Hongkew Park, next to the headquarters, was shelling Chinese positions in the Chapei district and north of the North Railway station.The first artillery fire came early in the afternoon, after a day of brisk machine gun and rifle skirmishing between Japanese bluejackets and Chinese regulars invading from the north.Japanese naval officers connected with the twenty-one Japanese warships already lining Shanghai wharves said one of their ships shelled the Jukong wharf because it housed a concentration of Chinese troops.They declared Chinese machine guns had fired at Japanese vessels on the river.SUPERSTITIONS MEAN LITTLE TO WHEELING GROUP Wheeling, W.Va., Aug.13.\u2014 Thirteen hoodoo smashing members of the Anti-Superstition Society met in the wee hours bet'oie dawn today, spilled salt, walked under ladders, raised umbrellas and emerged to chorus: \u201cIt\u2019s the bunk.\u2019\u2019 Unsuccessful in finding a haunted house for the traditional Friday the 13th session, they gathered in the office of Grand Smasher Edward McKee who started things off by breaking a mirror, CYPRUS TURNED | QUEBEC HIT BY TREASURE ISLE ! WORST RAIN IN BY GOLD RUSH.THREE DECADES Mad Rush to Stake Claims to! Ancient Capital Resumes Its Regular Routine After Suffering Heaviest Rainfall in Thirty Years \u20145.9 Inches of Precipitation Recorded.\u201cDevil\u2019s Mud,\u201d the islanders Name for the Gold-Bearing Ore \u2014 Rush Yy/iil Last About Three Years.Trodos, Cyprus, Aug.13.\u2014Great Britain\u2019s island colony of Cyprus is in the midst of a gold rush.Picturesque peasants, tradesmen rid small landowners stand in long queues outside the government mines office at Nicosia, the capital, ! years gradually were erased.Quebec, Aug.13.\u2014Life in this historic capital of French-Canada resumed its normal effects from the worst rainstorm to Anna Hahn, Former German j School Teacher Held onj Charges of Murder and Larceny, Will Be Subjected to Lie Detector Tests.Cincinnati, Aug.13.\u2014 Police sought today the purchaser of a quantity of oil poison as they pushed deep into an investigation ot a-grim trail of death and illness among elderly acquaintances of thirty-one year old Anna Hahn, former German school teacher, and widow of a Viennese doctor, Lieut.George W.Schattle, of the homicide squad, said that while he had suspended, for the time, questioning of Mrs.Hahn, she probably would be subjected to lie detector tests.He reported numerous contradictions in stories told by the woman thus far.Mrs.Hahn, denying all knowledge of the cause of five deaths under investigation, is held on fugitive warrants charging murder and grand Britain Doubles Defence Garrison At Shanghai As Situation Becomes Acute Battalion of Welsh Fusiliers Rushed from Hong Kong to Shanghai to Guard Foreign Residents as City Fills with Opposing Troops in Undeclared War Between China and Japan\u2014Faint Hope Still Held for Peace.ong Kong, August 13.\u2014The British Far Eastern army command today ordered a battalion of Welch Fusiliers to Shanghai to reinforce the British garrison there guarding foreigners in the undeclared war between China and Japan.The battalion, 930 strong, will double the number of British troops in Shanghai.The Welsh Fusiliers will sail for Shanghai on Saturday.At the same lime orders were issued to all British warships in and near Shanghai and other Yangtze river ports to paint the Union Jack on their turrets and gun shields as protection against attack from the air.CLAIM WAY STILL OPEN FOR PEACEFUL SOLUTION Nanking, August 13.\u2014A spokesman for the Japanese embassy break over this district in thirty- course today as , laiif eny:\t| of ?^eorgenobendoerfer,P