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Last week the Chicago Daily News's lanky, quiet-spoken Far Eastern Correspondent Archibald T. Steele sent out a tale of a visitor to No. 76 Jessfield Road, Shanghai. He had interviewed in Chungking one of the few Chinese alive to tell the story of a visit there...
...runners and hatchetmen, still operate in Shanghai; but ringed about with Japanese bayonets, spies, terrorized by free-firing gunmen, they have lost their glamor. Most efficient of the operating agencies in this Oriental caricature of Hell is the Japanese Special Service Section; under its jurisdiction is notorious No. 76 Jessfield Road where those whom the Japanese Empire has reason to fear or dislike are brought. Only rumor marks their disappearance...
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