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...Panay incident, Jim Marshall was hit in the shoulder, leaped onto a Standard Oil tanker which nosed alongside the gunboat, got ashore with the aid of a U. S. seaman and was taken to Wuhu by friendly Japanese. Less fortunately, Sandro Sandri of the Turin Stampa died next day of a horribly painful stomach wound. Other foreign correspondent to die during the hostilities was Pembroke Stephens, crackman from the London Telegraph. He was machine-gunned while watching the siege of Shanghai from a water tower in the French Concession. Two New York Timesmen, Hallett Abend and Anthony James Billingham, were...
...embarrassing." One kind of embarrassing information that Carlo continually published which very probably brought him to his death was stolen lists of daily instructions to the tightly controlled Italian press from the Propaganda Ministry. Few hours before the Roselli murders, last week in Manhattan Editor Girolamo Valenti of La Stampa Libera, also antiFascist. printed a five-month set of these instructions which he admitted came to him "from Paris...
...Rome, the Cianos started cutting a social swath and Edda surprised the British colony with the "English" she had learned from U. S. Marine officers' wives in Shanghai. One of the Countess' expressions was "oakie doak." Her husband at this time became Il Capo del Officia Stampa del Capo del Governo (The Head of the Press Office of the Head of the Government), later was given the rank of Minister for Press & Propaganda. He never could understand why foreign correspondents do not write with the same pro-Fascist zeal which came naturally to him when he was himself...
...relieve young Count Ciano's ufficio stampa (Press Bureau) of any difficulty in explaining Italy's future moves in Abyssinia, Dictator Mussolini as War Minister abruptly took over its functions. No more mimeographed handouts will be issued, he decreed. Correspondents will get their news orally at the War Office, face drastic prosecution if their verbal informant sees fit to accuse them of misquotation. Press feats of the week included high praise in every Italian paper for a mother who, asked why she was sobbing on the dock as her soldier son sailed, explained through her tears...
Before the Senator embarked on his year of innovation, La Stampa had 200,000 circulation. Last week it reached 295,000, was stepping hard on the heels of the panting leader, Milan's Corriere della Sera...