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Anthony Eden got his facts from trustworthy eyewitnesses who had escaped from Hong Kong around Feb. 1. Confirmation came immediately from a Miss Phyllis Harrop, first British woman to escape. An anti-vice crusader attached to the Foreign Office, she told reporters in Chungking last week: "My houseboy was killed...
When General Stilwell arrived in Chungking a fortnight ago, on a special mission for President Roosevelt, the Chinese welcomed an old friend who literally spoke their language. Joseph Stilwell began to learn Chinese in 1919 (when he was a captain, 15 years out of West Point). Later the Army sent...
In the Army they say of Joseph Stilwell that he is much more likely to be in a sleeping bag with troops than holed up in some comfortable headquarters. Last week Chinese and British officers on the Burma front (see p. 20) heard General Stilwell's "Yah!" He had...
For months unconfirmed and unconfirmable rumors have persisted that the Japanese were experimenting with bacterial warfare in China. But the first reliable report reached the U.S. only last month, in a letter to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Pratt double-checked his story with Chinese officials. Two...
There had been no bubonic plague in Changteh for ten generations, but within a week there were six cases. All died. Dr. Lim flew from Chungking to superintend the autopsies. They showed the marks of the "black death"-the black tongue and dark spots on the skin from which the...