Evening star., 1932-02-12
BULLETS FAM|L|AR
T0A.P. REPORTERS.
Four Covering Far East Con-
f|ict Have Followed Flags
of Many Nations.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 1.-THE
booming of cannon and whining OF bull
lets are familiar music to the four men
in charge of the staff covering the Sino-
japanese conflict for the Associated
Press
For years they have followed the flags
of many nations into battle. In their
adventuresome careers they have risked
life and freedom repeatedly to get the
news. Now three of them are doing 1t
again.
The strange ways of the Orient are
especially known to them, for all have
had long experience there.
Morris j. Harris, who is stationed at
Shanghai, first went to Japan in 1921.
James P Howe who is also at Shanghai,
has served in China, Japan, India, Ger
many, Egypt Java, the Philippines and
Russia Glenn Babb, now in Toxic,
first went to Japan in 1915.
Charles Stephenson Smith, chief OF
the Associated Press foreign service,
who is in Washington reporting Sino-
japanese developments at the White
House and the State Department,
worked for many years in the Far East
and has travelled around the world fire.
quently in the service of the Associated
Press.
Harris Experienced Quake Havoc.
There is scarcely a section of the
globe to which these four men have
not rushed at some time in their lives
to report a new chapter in world
history.
The dramatic experiences of such
men behind the news" generally re-
main untold stories until after the last
shell has been fired and the belligerents
are seated at a peace table. but few
have the adventures they do.
In 1923 Harris was in Toxic when
an earthquake spread havoc over
Japan. With thousands of others he
fled the fire which raZed the capital.
For 16 hours he stood in lake with
the water up to his neck in order to
escape the flames.
The next year he was in Washing
ton. but before the end of 1924 he
to San Francisco in 1925, but has been
back in the Far East since 1926.
When japanese WarshipS steamed up
to Shanghai Harris was there-watch-
ing preparations for the battle at
Chapel He has been in both Chinese
and japanese lines reporting first
hand the fighting.
Howe, the son of Ed Howe, widely
known publisher. served on papers in
Washington, Philadelphia. New orleans,
New York, San Francisco, Honolulu,
Portland Greg, and Atchison. Kan,
before joining the Associated Press
Bureau at San Francisco in 1918. He
went to London after the war, then
to Coblenz with the American Army
and to Warsaw for the RuSSo-PoliSh
war.
In 1922 he was at Riga and later went
to Moscow He covered the French oc-
cupation of the Ruhr and in 1928 went
to Peiping.
Babb served with the United States
Army in France, but i'll 1920 went back
to Japan. Three years later he went
to China Then he travelled around
the world and became cable editor for
the Associated Press handling Far East
news. In 1924 he returned to Toxic and
last Fall left to report the Manchurian
campaign. from the attack on Mukden
to the fall of Chinchow.
Smith went to China when that coun-
try joined the allies. From there he
Travelled to Russia, crossing from Vladi-
loStok to St. Petersburg with the
Elihu Root mission.
Smith Reported Pact Framing.
When the Germans threatened st.
Petersburg in 1917 Smith was there.
When Lenin took his government to
Moscow Smith went with him. On
ArmiStice day he was in London and
later reported the framing of the Yer
sailles treaty. He covered the Russo
Polish Peace Conference at Riga. and
when famine was sweeping Russia in
1922 he was in the Volga area weeks
ahead of the American relief admins
tration.
He worked in the East for years and
last Winter made a complete tour of
South America.
In addition to these men, the staff at
Washington, all men of wide expert
ence in foreign affairs, are covering de-
velopments at the Capital in connec-
tlon with the conflict in the East.