Evening star., 1949-05-26
Americans Trapped
In Shanghai Buildings;
None Believed Hurt
By the Assoeiotsd Press

SHANGHAI. May 26.-Ameri-
can Consul General John Cabot
said today that as far as he could
learn no Americans have been In
jured in the battle Of Shanghai.
Several had close calls, Mr.
Cabot said. He was one.
This morning a grenade blast
shattered a kitchen window in Mr.
Cabot's apartment and severely
cut his houseboy. Mr.. Cabot was
Gwo bvl,stE Ses.1jAay pehe-
trded the HDst0n diplomats BID
room on the sixth floor Of the
Glenline Building on the Bund
which is now q no-man's land
Mr.. Cabot was not in the room.
II think all Americans are safe. u
he said. "We have checked up a.
far as is humanity possible and
have learned Of no casualties. /,
1.-The Seventh-Day Adventist
Hospital on Huugjao road was hin
by Shells 1hSHAy anu badly dam
aged, but no americans were hurt
Can't Leave Building.
"All consulate personnel, num-
bering SO. are safe so far. A few
of our people were able to leave
the Glenline Building last night
by ducking across Peiping Road,
but there is q sniper on Peiping
road this morning so We can't
leave the building by any exit
now.
I'VE are deeply concerned about
the people across the creek In the
Embankment Building and Broad
way Mansions. but ut the moment
we are helpless to assist them"
About 500 Americans, British.
Portuguese. Netherlanders. French
and Chinese are trapped in the
seven-story Embankment Build
ing. Most Of them are British
and Chinese.
The British-owned business and
building is at the in
tersection Of Honan road and
North Soochow road. Already
bullet-splattered, the building is
within q stones throw Of prime
target, the post-of1ice building.
Editor Trapped.
In 1t are John w. Powell, editor
of the China Weekly Review. and
Mrs. Powell. He is the son Of the
late John Powell. who lost his feet
from maltreatment In q Japanese
prison camp.
Mr.. Powell died April 80. lo47.
shortly after addressing the
Washington alumni of the UNI
versity of Missouri at the Sheraton
Hotel.
Mr.. Powell told the Associated
Press by telephone this morning:
I'VE tried to sleep in the hall
as far from the bridge rs We could
get. Tell Morris Harris CAS-
ISOLATED Press writer In WASH
ington and former Associated
Press chief Of bureau In Shanghai,
to phone my mother that we are
all right
Also behind the Nationalist
lines Is Broadway Mansions, where
q handful Of foreigners are caught.
Among these are q few British,
Germans, French and Americans,
including the wife OF Fred Hamp-
son, Associated Press correspond
ent In Shanghai.
She phoned the Associated Press
ONCE this morning and reported
the situation around Broadway
Mansions fairly quiet. but said
there was evidence the National
lists had been reinforced during
the night.
Occupants Of the Mansions put
beds and mattresses between
themselves and the south walls
of the building last night. II
they slept at all. they slept on
the floor.
The American-owned CONNER
cial radio station. BEB 8. was
permitted to resume operations
today under Chinese Communist
supervision. Manager William
Crum said.
The station was closed BY the
Reds soon after they came into
Shanghai yesterday. ~
Other buildings In the no-man'a
land on the Bund include the So-
Wet and British consulates and
the British-owned Jardtns Aat 20
son Building.