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The Chinese press, with too-human jubilation, rose to the occasion, helped a good story along. It boasted at first of 52,000 Japanese casualties. Later the military spokesman pared this to 30,000 casualties. At the front, the tough men of battle told correspondents they had nicked the enemy...
Shy, bespectacled Colin MacDonald, the London Times's Far Eastern Correspondent, was in Hong Kong en route to Chungking when war broke out. Hong Kong-Chungking air service was interrupted.
On Dec. 23 the Japanese bombed Rangoon, devastated the neighborhood of his hotel. He moved to another. On Christmas the Japanese razed that hotel with incendiaries. Finally cadging a ride by plane to Lashio and another to Kunming, much-traveled Correspondent MacDonald arrived in China, wrote his dispatch, then proceeded...
Last week Chinese wondered where their new Foreign Minister would establish himself-in Washington or Chungking. Quipped one of his aides: "He'll probably set up office in an airplane."
These two baby giant pandas (escorted by Zoologist John Tee-Van,) arrived safely in San Francisco last week after a hazardous journey by plane from Chungking to Manila, by ship from Manila to Hawaii, through the sub marine-infested Pacific in the first convoy to reach the West Coast since...