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...just as important as the books and magazines are the day-by-day cables... from men like A.T. Steele of the Chicago Daily News, the N.Y. Times' Hallet Abend, and Tillman Durdin, and TIME's own T.H. White, who came via Harvard and the Chinese information ministry, and is now on the hot spot in Indo-China...
...Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, and agency superintendent of Owner Starr's Asia Life Insurance Co. (Chang's wife, a graduate of the University of Utah, is the daughter of a Chinese doctor in Salt Lake City.) He was also a friend of New York Times Correspondent Hallett Abend...
Shortly after midnight next morning, in an apartment on the Japanese side of Soochow Creek, Timesman Abend was packing trunks, making ready to move into the International Settlement, when a fist pounded on his door. He opened it, saw two Japanese in civilian clothes with drawn revolvers. One of them struck Newsman Abend on the head, the other wrenched his arm behind his back, demanded: "Where is the anti-Japanese book you are writing...
...Abend produced the manuscript of a book about Frederick Townsend Ward, U. S. soldier-adventurer who once led a Chinese army to put down a rebellion, died 78 years ago. The Japanese took charge of the manuscript (representing nine months' work by Author Abend), ransacked the apartment, wrenched out the telephone, gave Abend's head another cuff, his arm another twist, departed...
Only one explanation for the extraordinary troop movement was advanced by Mr. Abend: Japan was preparing an attack on Soviet Russia. With tRe Chinese still fighting valiantly, Japan in her right senses would scarcely think of attacking Russia alone. To Mr. Abend it therefore seemed logical that Japan had received assurances from her European allies, Germany and Italy, that they planned "demands and activities" near European Russia that would hold Soviet troops and materiel in the west...