The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-25
BRITISH ANTI-AR
GUNS ARE PLACED
AT SHANGHAI POST
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protest, and it was expected Lon
don would demand compensation.
None of the sightseers was hit.
The dead sentry was Rifleman
w. MCGOWAN of the first battalion
of the Royal Ulster rifles. He was
killed outside his sentry post in
front of u barricade across kes-
wick road leading into the British
defense sector of the Information
al settlement from Chinese terri
tory outside.
The same Japanese plane, one
of a squadron power-diving over
retreating Chinese SOLDIERS, fired
on a group of British and Ameri-
can horseback riders near the
edge of the war zone outside the
American Columbia Country
club.
While the sight-seers escaped,
at least two horses were wounded
and had to be killed.
British sentries fired on the
japanese plane which killed Rifle
man MCGOWAN and forced 1t to
retire.
The British and American rid
ing party was attacked just be-
fore MCGOWAN was shot down.
There were about a dozen per-
sons in the group including four
women and a number of Chinese.
The riders were separated when
the plane dived on them - It's
machine gun splitting death.
In the leading party were Mr..
and Mrs. c. II. Sprague, Ameri-
cans: Mrs. Ellice Andrews, Amer
lean wife Of a British business
man in Shanghai; H. d. Roger, an
American lawyer, living in Shang-
hal: Robert Smith of New York.
Behind them were Miss Cecilia
Poliark of Shanghai and Miss
Peggy Arnold of New London,
Conn. A third party, riding near.
by, included Richard Smith OF
Duluth, Mimi, and Richard Price
of Pembrokeshire, Wales. ..
Mr.. and Mrs. Sprague were IN
the lead. Sprague, an employe OF
the Standard Oil company, OF
New York, is from Cleveland, o.,
and his wife is from Boston. they
were accompanied by Mrs. An
drews.
Behind them rode Roger, a
member of the American cavalry
troop of the Shanghai volunteer
corps, and Robert Smith of New
York.
As the plane dived, its guns
blazing, the riders leaped from
their ponies and fled into bushes
along the road.
OF the two ponies killed, one
belonged to r. V. Soong, Ameri-
can educated governor of the
Bank of China, who had lent the
animal to the party.
The riders walked four miles
10 the Columbia club where they
reported what happened to U. 3.
Consul General Clarence Gauss.
Miss Pollock of Shanghai, whose
parents live in Glasgow, Scotland,
and Miss Arnold, riding behind
Roger and Smith, leaped from
their ponies and fled into the
bushes. Smith and Miss Pollock
crawled to the British barricade.
Richard Smith and Price clam
bered into an abandoned sandbag
redoubt. found that its roof was
composed only of thin straw mat
ting covered with leaves, and IL
naliy scrambled under a tree.
Another party of foreigners
riding nearby also narrowly es-
capped a hail of machine gun bull
lets apparently from the same
Japanese plane which was diving
time after time in a series OF
loops. 49,.
This group included two Amer
icans-Norwood F. Altman, VINO
is acting Mexican consul here, ana
Richard Harris, a Shanghai Dusl-
ness man. With them were l.: kig-
zion. an Italian, and H. w. Pflug'
a German druggist.
The foreigners counted hve
Chinese civilians killed and 1our
wounded in the road near them.
Other foreign residents report.
edlv were fired on. One report
said Lieutenant Commander NJ; D.
L. Burnett of the British warshlp
Cumberland, was attacked near
the Columbia club. British naval
authorities said they knew noth-
ing about the report. g..
British military authorities said
MCGOWAN was watching one ma
chine, when another dived straight
on him loosing a hail Of maGhine-
gun fire. The corporal in charge
of the sector ordered British gun
ners to fire on the Japanese plane,
but it apparently was not hit.
The same filler who killed Nc
Gowan later. machine-gunned an
other sentry. post of the Ulster
rifles on Great Western road, but
there were no casualties.