The Washington times., 1932-02-11
By HENRY WALES


NEW YORK, Feb. II
.Q.N.S.). - Floyd Gibbons is
writing history in another war.
His epic, graphic dispatches
from China are thrilling mil
lions of readers in America.
Syndicated and copied abroad,
they are giving the news of
the Sino-Japanese struggles to
millions more.
The Sino-Japanese clash is
the fourth that Gibbons has Gov
cred His first was in Mexico,
during the Carranza-Villa opera
tions: later, he was with Perish
ing's punitive force which thrust
deep across the border in pursuit
of the bandits army.
Next came the great war, when
Gibbons was one Of the IA &C
credited newspaper correspon-
dents attached to G.H.Q., A.E.F,
to General Pershing's staff di-
rectly. He covered operations Of
the Allied armies all along the
front-Belgian. British, French
and American-from the North
Sea to Switzerland.
After that he covered the Riff
war in Morocco, when the French
Joined the Spaniards in a deter
mined drive on Abd-E[Krim's
Moors. It resulted in the cap
ture of the rebel leader, the shat
tering of his forces.
Gibbons has paid a price for
his military experience. His left
eye was shot away, and his left
arm was drilled twice by German
machine-gun bullets in Belleau
Wood, near Chateau-Thierry, in
June. 1918. .. ..s --
Thrice around the world, once
across Asia aboard the trans
Siberian express; over the Sahara
Desert from Algiers to T1mbuctoo
on the Niger: around Africa,
stopping at every port; through
the AntipodeS, from Singapore to
Australia and New Zealand. he
has visited every country on the
globe, lived in every capital, ex-
cept a few isolated districts in
South America.
In Russia during the dread
days Immediately after the Red
revolution, he covered various
fronts during the foreign inter-
vention uprisings, when Juden-
itch, Koltchak, Denikin, and
finally Wrangel, attempted to
wrest back the country from the
Bolsheviks.
Afterward in the terrible
famine which swept over the
Volga region and the Ukraine,
he visited the scene of the
Scourge, witnessed the plight of
the dying thousands. Then he
made his way back, alone, to
Moscow, straight across European
Russia, to file dispatches which
resulted in the United States
rushing it's help, food, medicines,
clothing to the starving peasants.
In German Revolution
After covering the "black and
tan" troubles in Ireland, he
rushed to Berlin for the "Kapp
putsch" to overthrow the German
republic in 1920, went to Upper
Silesia for the bloody riots be-
tween Poles and Germans in 1921,
was in the Ruhr for the military
occupation b. the French and
BelgianS in the next year. After
ward he hurried to Poland for
Red cavalry drive on
Warsaw, only checked at the
gates of the capital.
Later he covered the election
of - Jpe Plus in Rome, then the
Socialist riots and outbreaks in
Vienna, the Carolist rising in
Budapest. the menace of civil
wars in Rumania and Spain, then
the Pulsudski coup d'etat in |
Poland
He was aboard the Laconia
when the Cunarder was torpedoed
by a U-boat in the Atlantic. He
was aboard the Dutch packet |
plying between England and Hol-
land during the war when she
was held up by a submarine and |
the Kings messenger, bearing |
secret code dispatches from the
British government to it's embassy
at the Hague, was taken. off by
the German commander.
Later he flew over the Carib-
bean Sea and visited the various
ports and Islands in the West
studying the potential
theater of hostilitieS of any, even
tual naval war in American
waters.
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