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...First white correspondent to reach General Ma was small, dark, alert Fred Kuh (pronounced "coo") who had dashed 6,000 mi. overland from Berlin where he is Bureau manager for United Press. In crossing the entire breadth of Russia, passing the Soviet frontier, coming on to Tsitsihar, experienced Correspondent Kuh saw no evidence of Red Army troop movements or war preparation of any kind by the Soviet Union...
While Japanese papers saw Red, while the Japanese General Staff in Manchuria "proved" to correspondents by showing them dead Russians in Chinese uniforms that Moscow was aiding Ma, Correspondent Kuh asked the Japanese Consul at Tsitsihar (who was just leaving for Harbin) his opinion. Flatly the Consul said that Moscow was not aiding...
...Kuh & Ma. Short, slender and serene is Hero Ma. He looks almost exactly like the late, great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin under whom he learned to fight. Like Marshal Chang's mustache, the mustache of General Ma is thin, black and drooping. Like Chang's head. Ma's head is closely shaven, glistens. As small Marshal Chang used to be small General Ma is the terror of a General Staff composed exclusively of tall, strapping, exceedingly respectful Chinese officers. They bent their large bodies over staff maps last week while General Ma in silken house...
Seated beside the General on a sofa, Guest Kuh surveyed four rubber plants in pots, four cuspidors, a large German clock, sumptuous Persian rugs, rich curtains, and a table on which tea was sumptuously laid in a silver service, complete with biscuits, fruit, cakes and a bucket of cracked ice surrounding French champagne...
...wars in Manchuria went famed War Correspondent Floyd Gibbons for Hearst's Universal and International News Services. From Tunis, where he had been basking pleasantly, high-strung little Karl Von Wiegand hurried by boat, train and plane to Mukden on summary orders from Hearst headquarters. Frederic Kuh, Berlin bureau manager of United Press, raced across Europe to Manchuli. Associated Press moved Shanghai Correspondent Glenn Babb north to Mukden but despatched no special aces across the globe, believing that, with winter coming, hostilities would not be extensive...