“ONE ARM” SUTTON
WAR CORRESPONDENT.
FOR “DAILY EXPRESS.”
LONDON, February 24. The “Daily Express” has appointed General “Onc-Ann” Sutton its war correspondent in Jehol. General Sutton lost his arm on Gallipoli, where it was amputated without an anaesthetic, whilst three men sat on him. He went to China in search of adventure' after the war, and arrived pennilessThe late Marshal Chang Tso-lin, who was then War Lord of Northern China, employed him to reorganise his arsenals, and within a year the Red menace in Northern China had been crushed. General Sutton amassed a fortune meanwhile.
He has now left for Pekin, going thither through the mountain passes in a motor lorry fully armed and ready to deal with bandits. He has a large neutral flag on the roof of the lorry as a protection from the Japanese aeroplanes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1933, Page 2
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