The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-02
INSIDE PICTURE
 OF CHINESE WAR BY UP. MAN
Frederick Kuh, Who Has
 Been Covering That
 Field for United Press Gives Story Over Radio

New York, Jan --(UP)-ViVld Inside pictures" of the war in Manchuria including one of Chin csc General Ma, "chief of police and big shot bandit who handed out his pictures Hollywood style" were given radio listeners yester- day by Frederick Kuh, first to in- terview Ma, and first occidental war correspondent into Manchuria. Kuh, central European news manager for the United Press, talked from Berlin. His story was carried by short wave to America where 1t was broadcast over the nationwide network of the Colum- bia Broadcasting company. Kuh recently returned to Berlin after q two-month assignment which took him across Russia and Siberia and through the war zone.
 General Ma Chan-Shan, tho "man of the hour" by virtue of his personal declaration of war" on duties of chief of police in Man churian village near the Soviet bonrder with the occupation of bandit, Kuh revealed. Kuhs inter- view with the Chinese commander was one of the outstanding news beats he scored during his assign ment.
 "He evidently accustomed him. self to fame quickly" Kuh said, flor at the close of our conversa- ton he handed me his photograph, conveying his compliments to the press with the flourish of Q Holly wood star.
 "His adjutant affixed General Mas name to the picture because the generals activities as a ban dit had kept him from learning to road and write"
 Kuh said his most vivid eXperl- ence was wild automobile ride across the prairie from Anganchi to Tsitsihar, Q distance of 20 miles along the bloody trail left by Mas troops in their retreat before the Japanese.
 My Chinese chauffeur warmed the automobiles frozen engine by building a bonefire underneath the hood" Kuh related. We started off at breakneck speed, ignoring the unexploded shells and bombs along our path.
 He stopped once and collected an armful of unused bombs which he said he intended to sell to the local bandits. I persuaded him to postpone his entry into the muni- tions business.
 "During the drive we witnessed the ghastly evidence of General Mas retreat. Discarded steel hel- nets, canteens, hand grenades, am- munition and clothing along the road told the story of a desperate effort to escape the pursuing Jap anese.
 "M>tilated horses and unburied bodies of Chinese soldiers a few miles beyond revealed how that eff fort had ended, at least for some.'
 Then there was the censor who "doctored" a news cable.
 "Collecting the news often in- yolyed difficulties and discomfOrts." Kuh stated, "but getting 1t through a ruthless censorship was real ordeal
 "The Chinese censor had tried to destroy the news force of reports to the American Press by delaying their normal transmission by as much as five days. In one instance the Harbin censor falsihed news and cabled it to America as com Ing from the correspondent or an American News Agency"
 Kuh summed up the difficulties of reporting the Sino'JapaDese as "not an alluriDg winter sport"
 You are better off reading the latest reports from the Manehuf' ian war gone as you browse over your morning coffee. than n news paper corresp0ndent on the spot collecting and rushing that news 10 your breakfast table,
 "When they are out iD the bat. tie region wondering whether tbat ehuggiDg airplaDe overhead is about io drop a few wsil'almed bombs, they feel sDr, that tbeir mOtber looked like q target and ihslr faiber looked Ike a bDlis'sye