GRAPHIC STORY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 201, 10 September 1937, Page 5

GRAPHIC STORY

Auckland Nurse Injured In Air-Raid GRUESOME EXPERIENCE SHANGHAI, Auj. ST. ' Miss Elsie Farrell a nurse, formerly of Auckland, New Zealand, and daughter of Mr. J. Farrell, manager for J. 0. Williamson, Ltd., at Auckland, tells a graphic story of her escape in the bombing of the International Settlement. She was 'interviewed in ho«i pital, where she was recovering from a severe scalp wound over the right eye and extensive bruisings, ' "I was riding in a car lalcrag the Tibet road with Mr. Montague Smith, when suddenly I saw a dark, grey haze obscuring everything," said Miss Farrell. "The next thing I knew, I was getting out of the car and scrambling over a pile of bodies. "I could not see, because of the blood pouring down my face, and I put up my hand to feel my eyes. When I found they were there I felt so happy that I could not think of the poor wretches over whom I was stumbling in my eagerness to get away. "I did not hear a thing, anU I did not think either. All I had in mind was to get away. It seemetf to me that I was wandering about for half an Kour before I was picked up by the Frenchpolice and taken to tfee French hospital. I first got treatment there, but I could not sit w.aiting for an hour, as I was asked to do so I went out looking for a rickshaw, and got one, to bring me to the Country Hospital here. "I mot Mr. Montague Smith just after I left the Palace Hotel, and was taking a rickshaw to the French BundL Mr. Smitli, a stranger, offered me a lift, because he said there were going to be fireworks soon. I suppose I must have just missed the Nanking road bombing. After the bombs fell I thought that Mr. Smith was killed, and I heard the groans of the wounded and dying." , t