Foreign News: Bare Fist, Gloved Fist

Soldiers demanded money-or-life from the Rev. John E. Williams of Nanking University and when he objected, they shot him, stripped him, and walked off (an eye-witness said) "chatting with each other as though they had shot only a pig or a dog." The body of Sergeant James B. Montague of the U. S. Marines was found shot and bloated in the Whangpoo River at Shanghai. Nanking's British Harbor Master was killed, too, and one French and one Italian Roman Catholic priest.

These things might have taken place in China last week, but they did...