Hustling Reporter

Twice Crosses Pacific to get from Japan to China’s War-zone.

From Our Own Correspondent

A Honolulu, Sept. 24.

STRAIGHT line isn’t always the quickest distance between two points.

Jim Marshall, correspondent in the Orient for famed Collier's Weekly maga zine of New York, who arrived here a few days ago from U.S.A. by the trans pacific Clipper, will vouch for this.

In Japan, a fortnight ago, he received orders to go to Shanghai and join the other reporters “covering” the undeclar fa war between China and Japan. The Japanese authorities refused to allow Marshall (who is one of the most likeable of U.S. reporters, because he is a veteran and not a skyrocket type like so many of the “modern” news writers) to sail from Japan to Shanghai.

The Japanese know Marshall’s pen. It is unbiased, alert.

Mai shall and his wife, in defiance, boarded a German steamer carrying munitions for Shanghai, but it was stopped by a Japanese patrol and escorted to Yokohama. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall scuttled to Kobe, and sneaked aboard a French steanjer scheduled for Shanghai, but Japanese secret service operators es corted them ashore!

The American then tried every angle known to a news veteran: wire pulling, interviews, bribes, diplomacy, but noth ing worked. There he was burning up only 1,000 miles from Shanghai, the world s current No. 1 magnet for news hawks.

The Japanese Government sighed with relief when later Mr. and Mrs. Marshall sailed, apparently crestfallen, for Seattle on the opposite side of the Pacific. Before the liner docked in Seattle, however, the reporter had hopped into a coast guard cutter, raced ashore, boarded an air liner for San Francisco, and made a connec tion with a trans-Pacific Clipper for Hong Kong, via Hawaii and Manila!

He carries a special visa to his pass port signed by none other than President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At Manila, a U.S. navy vessel will steam post haste to Shanghai—with Jim Marshall aboard!

By the time he reaches China, he will have travelled 14,000 miles to reach Shanghai which was only 1,000 miles away when he started!

Archdeacon and Mrs. R. de Veil,

formerly of Rabaul, New Guinea, re

ceived many congratulations in August on the birth of a daughter, Frances

Gillian, at St. Margaret’s Rectory, Leven,

Fife, Scotland.