NURSE CLAIMS DAMAGES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22306, 21 January 1938, Page 15

NURSE CLAIMS DAMAGES

SHANGHAI BOMBING INCIDENT NEW ZEALAND GIRL'S INJURIES Miss Elsie Farrell. a New Zealand nurse, has made a claim for £IO,OOO against the Chinese Government. Miss Farrell, who is a daughter of Mr John Farrell, manager for J. C. Williamson, Ltd.. suffered severe facial injuries in Shanghai, on August 14, last year, when the car in which she was a passenger was destroyed by a bomb during an air raid on the International Settlement. Details of his daughter's claim, which was lodged with the British ConsulGeneral in Shanghai, have been received by Mr Farrell. Mr Farrell said yesterday that in a letter he had received from Miss Farrell recently, she had not seemed very hopeful about the outcome of the claim. "Of course if the Chinese pay anything," she had said, "it will be only a small amount." In the claim Miss Farrell has recounted the events which led up to and followed the bombing of the car. On August 14 she had been given a lift by a Mr Montague-Smith and when the car had reached the intersection of Yu Ya Ching and Edward VII roads the bomb had dropped. The motor-car had been destroyed and she had been taken, bleeding profusely, to a French Hospital. She had received two painful cuts, one above the nose and one above the right eye. and five pieces of shrapnel were embedded in the skin of her skull. Mr Montague-Smith had lost a leg and an eye, and one of his lungs had been severely injured. "I have already received a bill for 50 dollars (Shanghai)," the claim continues, "I lost my position as a result of the accident, and there will be expense attached to further treatment. The disfigurement of my face will remain. After due consideration I claim from the responsible party £10,000." Miss Farrell also states that all the wounds she received now give her constant pain, and even if further treatment was successful the injuries would i be only partly eliminated. - {