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John Metcalfe went to New York's Germanic Yorkville in February, made friends, was "persuaded" to join the nationalist Amerikadeutscher Volksbund. Soon he was put in charge of Bund propaganda activities. Back in Chicago fortnight ago Metcalfe exchanged notes with Brother James Metcalfe and Mueller, who had also done extensive prowling among German-Americans. Together with Managing Editor Ruppel they took over the Times's first nine pages to reveal "Secrets of Nazi Army in U. S. A.-by Times men who joined it!" Sample secret: "The regimented tread of marching men under the flaming Nazi swastika resounds...
...fighting wars in town instead of in the country has vastly increased the peril of noncombatants, it has at the same time advanced the efficiency of news coverage of the hostilities a hundredfold. For instance: on the afternoon of Aug. 14, three Chinese bombers flew over Shanghai's Bund, accidentally or intentionally slipped two bombs out of their bomb-racks and blew in the fronts of both the Cathay and Palace Hotels, which face each other across teeming Nanking Road. Two hundred and twenty people were killed and mangled. And had the ghastly scene been directed in a Hollywood...
...corner of the famous Bund which skirts the Whangpoo, and Nanking Road, heart of the section where Americans congregate, the sky fell fortnight ago when a Chinese air bomb intended for the Idumo fell, plunk!, into the Palace Hotel (No. 10 on the map). Another, a mile away, snuffed out 500 lives when it plunked into the Great World Amusement Palace, crammed with gibbering Chinese...
...Hongkew section, the Chinese drove down towards the river through the eastern extension of the International Settlement, until the Japanese warships opened fire to support their forces on land. Across the river on the right bank other Japanese troops tried to push back Chinese defending forces. Down from the Bund through this crossfire Americans were ferried to the mouth of the Whangpoo where ships picked them up to carry them to sea and safety. Meantime Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell placed the U. S. S. Augusta (see map) so as to give maximum protection to the western half of the International...
...cent of all news from China is piped to the world through Shanghai. Ninety per cent of all newshawks in China get most of their facts and write most of their stories in the lounges and bars of the three big hotels along the International Settlement's Bund: the Palace and Cathay hotels and across the Garden Bridge, the Astor House...