British Pressman Shot Dead

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 42, 12 November 1937, Page 5

British Pressman Shot Dead

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JAPANESE BULLETS Riddled by Machine-Gun Burst MR. PEMBROKE STEPHENS

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(Received 12, 1.45 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Nov. 11. Japanese machine-gunners fatally shot the London Daily Telegraph's correspondent, Mr Pembroke Stephens. At the outset Mr Stephens tried to signal to the Japanese that he and his party were non-combatants. The Japanese interr -eted his waving as signals to the Chinese and fired from 300 yards. Mr Stephens was riddle with bullets. It was 45 minutes beforo it was safe to go to him. The Japanese spokesman declared that the maehine-guns were firing at Chinese snipers and that stray bullets killed Mr Stephens. Personally he regretted Mr Stepheils's' untimely end. Mr Stephens was a son of the late Mr Pembroke Stephens, K.C. He was called to the ; ar after leaving Cambridge and later went into films. He then joined the League of Nations secretariat, after which he entered journalism as the Daily Express correspondent at Vienna and t' en at Berlin, where he was arrested and expelled in 1934 on account of his reports. He became the Express cerrespondent at Paris, after which he joined the Daily Telegraph.