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Spanish Bishop Tells How Japs Looted His Mission at Changteh ’ By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH, * AuoSlaMd Prai War Corraapondant. ' CHANGTEH (By courier and tele graph to Chungking) Dec. 33 (De layed).—1Thi« once peaceful city of some 160,000 persons today is just a mass of twisted and shattered wreckage to which the stench of deattr still clings. Ptiw of ashes mark the places where the Japanese burned their Seed and freshly-turned graves com memorate the namelees Chinese soldiers who fell during the 30-day Settle for the city—the most fright ful struggle of the entire Chlnese J&panese war. Only now—10 days after the battle —are the people who fled before the invaders returning to the ruins of their homee. Here 3,000 Chinese under Maj. Gen. Cheng Wan were reduced to come 30 before they were forced to abandon the city to the Japanese, and here Chinese armies executed a masterful offensive acrosi the Yuan River to deliver the city from the Invaders. Lodged In Spanish Mission. 1 arrived here yesterday after noon with a Chinese-conducted party of war correspondents and military attaches. We traveled by steam launch, junk and sampan up the Shing Sze River from Changsha to Kiyang for three days, then by mule, pony, sedan-chair and afoot for four more before arriving here. Our party is being lodged at a Spanish Roman Catholic mission, near Ohangteh’s east gate. Our host is Bishop Gerardo P. Herrero, M, who has sprat the lest *4 years in China. He with six other Spanish Nationals, members of the mission, were the only civilian foreigners to remain here during the battle for Changteh. Hu treatment of the missionaries at the hands of the Japanese caused him to notify the Spanish consul at Shanghai that all Spanish members of the mission were "extremely in sulted” and that the mission had been looted of money and property worth more than 400,000 Chinese dollars. Urges Strong Protest. Hie bishop In his message to the consul said "fortunately no one was killed,” but urged that a strong pro test be made to the Japanese govern ment and that compensation be demanded. Hie bishop gave our party the first eye-witness accounts of the bat tle as well as of the treatment of the mission by the Japanese. He said the mission was advised by the Chinese to evacuate on No vember 30, but that all possibility of escape by boat—the only feasible means—had vanished, t Bishop Herrero said he hung out a Spanish flag and waited for the worst. Chinese townspeople, mostly women and children who had been unable to get away, sought refuge in the mission building. Hie bishop said the Japanese ap proached Changteh in a wide-swing ing encirclement and as their fight ing neared the city, the "world was shaken like a hell” with planes roar ing in the sky, and artillery and machine guns "going all around us, it seemed.” He related that the Chinese troops in bitter hand-to-hand street fight ing finally were forced to retreat along the river bank in front of the mission to a Confucian temple just outside the east gate. Buildings on all tides of the mission won blasted by the gunfire. Took $M,#0t In Money. The Japanese, he said, at first after ascertaining that the mission was In the hands of neutral Span iards did nothing more than “bor row" such things as cooking oil. salt and cooking vessels. Several days later he said he visited a mis sion building where the Japanese had taken shelter. ' One soldier searched him,’taking a fountain pen and what money he had, and then slapped him when he was slow about removing a sash the soldier had taken a fancy to. After that he declared the Japa nese looted the main building of the mission. Searching an underground room they dug up a heavy wooden chest and chopped it open and took two watches, nine ounces of gold, $20,000 in money, a gold crucifix and a dia mond ceremonial ring. Three Spanish sisters, together with three Chinese sisters, and other women, used the chapel as a refuge and the bishop was struck over the head with a wooden stave when he resisted attempts of the invaders to "arrest” the women. One of the nuns suffered a bad scalp wound when a Japanese soldier struck her over the head with the flat side of his sword. The bishop said that in all he was struck on four different occasions. Bishop Herrero quoted Japanese soldiers as saying they used four divisions in their unsuccessful at tempt to hold the city. He said that while Japanese casualties were high he believed the Chinese losses werd much greater. Storage in Paraguay Studied Paraguay has created a commis sion to study a project for construc tion of grain elevators and refrig erating plants to store agricultural products of the country. Brewster Lauds Hull And Hoover Accord On Foreign Policies By the Auoclstcd Pros. Applauding Secretary of State Cordell Hull for his “efforts to stop partisan politics at the water’s edge,” Republican Senator Brew ster of Maine predicted yesterday that the coming presidential cam paign “will be fought out on do mestic issues." Commenting on reported efforts to write identical foreign policy planks into the platforms of both major parties, Senator Brewster told an interviewer: "The close identities of the views of Mr. Hull and former President Herbert Hoover offer a basis for settlement of basic differences on international relations which plague patriotic leaders of both parties. “If I were asked to write a Christmas message, it would be a message of hope for the future be cause I am Imbued with belief that foreign policy Issues which have brought strife and controversy for many years are beginning to clarify.” Senator Brewster.'one of five Sen ators who recently toured the Allied battlefronts, said the postwar dec laration Secretary Hull brought back from Moscow was in line with Mr. Hoover's recommendations. “Carry it a step further and you And that Mr. Hull and Mr. Hoover share the belief that there can be realistic collaboration in the future in which forthright Americanism will be a part," Senator Brewster said. “There exists only one real solid difference between so-called inter nationalist* and so-called isolation ists. •Th* latter fear the British—the whole American urge towards isola tionism is fear of British domina tion of commerce and diplomacy. "What Mr. Hull and Mr. Hoover propose Is a forceful American par ticipation In the decisions that will fee made in the future—that strong men represent the United States in world councils.” Senator Brewster said an Ameri can system of air transport around the world, guarantees of access to petroleum resources of the Persian Gulf, an American communications system girdling the globe and col laboration with the British on merchant marine transportation are essential for world peace, progress and prosperity." St. Louis Family Has Twelve in Services By th« Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 25.—Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Van Coutren expect to add a 12th star to the service flag in the front window. James, a married son, said today he has enlisted in the Marines and expected to be called next month. Three daughters are in the WAC, six other sons are in the Navy, one in the Army and one In the Mer chant Marine. Two Burned to Death In Minneapolis Blaze Ey the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 25.— Two elderly men were burned to death, and three others suffered serious burns when lire destroyed an apartment honse here early to day. The victims were James Novak and William Marquardt, each 65 years old. 'Welcome to Britain,' New Army Movie, Pleases G. I. Joes Bjr EDWARD MORGAN, Foreign Correspondent of The Star end Chicago Dellr Newi. LONDON, Dec. 25.—Two thousand G. Ia have Just served as guinea pigs for audience reaction to a spe cial new film which Is soon to be shown to all American soldiers ar riving in Britain, so that they will know what to expect and how to act, in the hope that their stay will be made much happier, for every body concerned. The G. Is loved it, and it’s hard to quarrel with their Judgment. Called "Welcome to Britain,” the picture was financed by the British Treasury, and made by the Minister of Information — In collaboration with the Office of War Information. It was presented as a gift by the British War Office to the United States Army. Technically, it is one of those "ori entation’’ films, but actually it is 60 minutes of first-class entertainment which dramatically and emphatically gets Its points across. It avoids the sugar-coating which any soldier dis likes, and It avoids preaching, which any soldier hates. Burgess Meredith Starred. Capt. Burgess Meredith, the homely Cleveland boy who made good both on Broadway and Holly wood, Is largely responsible for the film’s success. On the screen he Is a private who shows his brother G. I.s how not to win friends and Influence people. He demonstrates how important It Is for the soldier to remember that food is rationed when he Is invited to a meal in a British horns and to bt careful how he butters his bread, because he may be paving one slice with what Is supposed to last a whole family a week. Capt. Meredith's homeliness is the credible, oomfortable kind which ad mirably adapts him to government Issue uniform, and makes the sol dier who Is seeing him say auto matically, "That guy’s Just like me.” The picture skips nothing. It deals adroitly with the color ques tion and the British view about it, and the fact that it is generally broader than ours. With masterful understatement, it high lights the "painted perils of Piccadilly,” as the London press sometimes calls the streetwalkers of West End. Praised by London Press. "There has been a lot of joking about that. Just be sure that the joke is not on you,” Capt. Meredith says. Capt. Meredith and Office of War | Information Screen-Writer Sam Spewak produced most of the script. One of the British film Industry's top men, Anthony Asquith, directed. London’s newspapers praised the picture and the Mirror said that it should not be restricted just to Yanks, but should also be shown to the British public to let them see some of their own peculiarities as their brothers in arms see them. It should be said right here that unless Allied propaganda planners call a halt to pictures like this, there is very great danger that Britons and Americans are going to wake up after this war with a certain warm understanding of each other (Copyright, 1843. Chicago Dally Newt. Inc. Sweden Rations Bricks Sweden has a shortage of bricks 1 and is rationing them to builders. Miss Alma A. Knoblock To Be Buried Tomorrow UIm Alma A. Knoblock, M, died of a heart attack in her home at Cabin John, Md„ Thursday. Sha was the sister of Miss Fanny Knob lock, Cabin John. Two nephews also survive. Bahai funeral services will be held at 9 am. tomorrow at the funeral home of W. Reuben Pumphrey, Be thesda, with burial in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Washington. 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