HEROISM AT SHANGHAI
Boy Risks Life to Save His Pets (Eeceived 29, S.45 a.m.) KEW YORK, Nov. 27. The American Humand Association has announced the award of a medal to Yalentine Holdosi, a Eussian-born achoolboy, of China, but how to locate him and get the medal to hhn is a problem. The association is unable •ven to learn the- fate of its own Shanghai branch, and does not know whether the boy is still alive. It appealed to the Chinese Consul, who has referred the matter to the American Consulate, due to the partial Japanese occupation of the International Settlement. The association said that the boy, after fleeing from his home, situated in a Shanghai area undergoing shelling, Tealised that his pets, a chicken, two dogs and two canaries, had been loft with a singlo day's food. Failing to obtain a permit to enter the zone, he slipped into sectors alternatively targets for Japanese shells and Chinese snipers and Tescued his pets unharmed. Later he reached a wharf, whenee the police escorted him to the tempofary headquarters of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 5
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