Honored Editor

In the 20 months since they took Shanghai from the Chinese, the Japanese have gradually tightened their censorship of the Chinese and English language press. Papers outside the International Settlement were easy to deal with, and even those inside have tactfully toned down their anti-Japanese news. But one newspaper the Japanese have been unable to muzzle is Ta Mei Wan Pao (meaning Great American Evening Newspaper), Chinese-language edition of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, which is owned by the Far East's No. 1 life insurer, bustling Cornelius Vander Starr. By printing pictures of Chinese resistance in West China, Ta Mei Wan Pao has run its circulation up to 100,000, largest in Shanghai. And since it announced its defiance of censorship the following things have happened :

1) Its offices have been bombed.

2) Its editor, Chu Hsin-kung, has received a severed human hand in the mail.

3) Its circulation director has been assassinated.

For the 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.

Hateline-of-the-Week

From the London Daily Mirror:

For theft . . . WANTED for murder . . . for kidnapping . . . for arson ADOLF HITLER

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