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...East, real-estate speculator, owner of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury and a TiMEstyle China newsmagazine. East. Ten months ago the editor of Starr's Ta Mei Wan Pao, Chinese edition of the Evening Post & Mercury, was shot dead as he crossed the bridge over Soochow Creek. Last April Starr's newspaper plant was bombed, killing three Chinese and an Annamese policeman...
Shortly after midnight next morning, in an apartment on the Japanese side of Soochow Creek, Timesman Abend was packing trunks, making ready to move into the International Settlement, when a fist pounded on his door. He opened it, saw two Japanese in civilian clothes with drawn revolvers. One of them struck Newsman Abend on the head, the other wrenched his arm behind his back, demanded: "Where is the anti-Japanese book you are writing...
Unforgettable were shots of coolies heaping into trucks corpses like flopping fish; bodies with faces blown away bobbing down muddy Soochow Creek; mangled flesh being shoveled out of shell-shattered ruins. Unforgettable were the despairing faces of old Spanish women. Most unforgettable of all: a blood-covered, four-year-old Chinese child, sitting bolt upright like a doll on a deserted railway platform, behind him the charred beams of the station...
...past two months Ta Mei Wan Pao's offices have been guarded from terrorists. Fortnight ago, in an article on terrorism, Editor Chu wrote: "Everybody must die some time. It is an honor to die for China." One day last week, as he crossed the bridge over Soochow Creek, Chu Hsin-kung was so honored, by a single shot in the head...
...Twenty old U. S. residents of China released in Shanghai a survey of conditions in the nine Japanese-occupied Chinese cities of Nanking, Kaifeng, Suchow, Chinkiang, Canton, Soochow, Hangchow, Hankow and Tsinan. The cities' pre-war combined population of 5,800,000 had shrunk, they said, to 2,400,000. The Chinese puppet administrations were "weak, inefficient and corrupt," business was depressed, there was widespread unemployment, prostitution was rampant and narcotics were sold openly under Japanese auspices. Their conclusion: "The whole former trend of constructive development has been shattered, and devastation, chaos and oppression brought in a regime which...