RUSSIAN BOY'S BRAVERY AT SHANGHAI

Northern Advocate, 29 November 1937, Page 7

RUSSIAN BOY'S BRAVERY AT SHANGHAI

(Received 10 a.m.)

NEW YORK, November 27.

The American Humane Association has voted an award of its hero medal to Valentine Holdosi, a Russian-born schoolboy of China, but how to locate him and get the medal to him is a problem.

The association cannot even learn the fate of its own Shanghai branch and does not know whether the boy is still alive. It has appealed to the Chinese consul, who has referred it to the American consulate.

Owing: to the occupation of the

International Settlement, the boy fled from his home in the Shanghai area. Later, undergoing shelling, he released his pets—a chicken, two dogs and two canaries—and left a single day’s food for them.

Failing to obtain a permit to enter the zone, hg slipped into the sectors, which were alternately targets for Japanese shells and Chinese snipers, and rescued unharmed all his pets. The lad reached the Whangpoo wharf, whence the police escorted him to the temporary headquarters of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.