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During the crisis stage of the battle for Suchow last month, Fred Gruin, TIME Inc.'s Nanking bureau chief, was faced with the prospect of either getting a correspondent and a photographer to the front for an eyewitness account of the fighting or confessing to his editors in New...
Within half an hour MacWilliams was winging south toward Nanking. There he waited nearly four hours for gasoline. He ate a meal of rice and meat stew scooped out of a big pot in the chow tent, and at regular intervals argued with the ground crewmen to get going on...
How to Relax. It was 5 in the afternoon before MacWilliams had hustled the second load of soldiers off his EUR-46 at Nanking's military airfield. Soon he was cruising back over the Yangtze Valley rice paddies toward Shanghai. Flicking on the automatic pilot, he leaned back and...
He had ranged all over China in 2½ years-Shanghai, Nanking, Hong Kong, Peiping, Mukden. "Today was especially tough," he said. "By the time we get back to Shanghai it will be 16 hours out for me -and only eight hours flying time. We get paid only for flying...
When the 2,100-ton ship edged out into the Whangpoo River late in the afternoon, she carried 2,250 paying passengers (mostly loaded earlier at Nanking), plus about 1,200 stowaways with their belongings. The ship's official capacity was 1,186. By 6:30 p.m. her decks...