JAPAN-CHINA: Holding On

Dr. Love Rankin, a U. S. woman doctor attached to the Chinese Red Cross, one day last week tried to visit her husband who teaches school in a Shanghai suburb. Japanese bombers roared overhead. Frightened, she ran, thought of hiding behind an automobile, changed her mind, jumped behind a tree. The automobile was blown to bits. Bombs burst all around her, buried her in debris. Two coats and a sweater protected her from serious injury.

Maurice Ropaport, a Russian, was inspecting the rifle of a friend in...

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