War Correspondents' Trails Lead to Shanghai from Abyssini:
Will Soon Trek West Again The world Is a small place to two noted Danish Journalists who have met in Shanghai and will soon start on long journeys to the. interior, along different "routes, representing different newspapers. Both are cssentially globetrotters—one has roam-fed the earth In search of news for me twenty-five years—and boll ily to gravitate to the where things happen. Th met last in Abyssinia, now they In China soon to separate again, and goodness knows where they will run Into each other the next time unless there is a Mret-class war or upheaval Somewhere.
Mr, Hellssen's war correspondence started with the Balkan. wars, and soon after came the Great" Wai Subsequently he was at the front in the While Russians' campaign against the Soviets and in the Finns' war against the Bolsheviks. He was with @Annunzio when the Tallan. post took "Flume, was in the Greek ex-edition in Asia Minor in 1931, and somehow kept out of the flesh-pots of the Masais, the wildest tribe in Bast Africa, during the Rebellion of the Young' Men. He spent a year Africa and flew from Cairo to Mr. Henry Helissen, as he points Out himself, "doesn't ook the part." Yot he has covered big events over the world for "Berlingske Tidende" In Copenhagen. for the last twenty-Bve years. A. stockily-buill, smallish man with a round face, frank blue eyes and an easy manner, he looks as if he might be engaged in ome profitable but unexciting cornmercial enterprise, rather than being a professional hunter of Big News on strange shores. Mr. Sven 'Tillge-Rasmussen, special correspondent of "Politiken," is a much younger man and has had but ten years in Journalism, but in that comaralively short period he has been hot on the heels' of great events on three continents In the, interests, his paper. Next week he will start fon an ambitious journey inland, frst Aying to Szechuen, then going through the Yangtze Gorges'by ship, fying from Tchang to Hankow, and pro ceeding by rail to Canton.
The. veteran Mr. Hellssos's) frst "scoop" was the theft of Leonardo Vinel's "Mona Lisa" from. the Louvre in Paris in 1911. He returned to Copenhagen and when the author!- tes there toasted that a similar theft from the Danish National Gallery was Impossible he quietly pinched a large and famous painting from that institution and kept it for twelve hours while the police tore their hair in Impotent rage, He.has been round the world three tinies and his present visit to the Far East his third, 'a5 ho calls it, "large" visit. The last one was in 1928-1929, when he spent more than a year in Inner Qiongolla Jand made shorter sojouras in Peling, Shanghai, and Nanking. Nanking was then China's new-born capltal and Mr, Hellssen and the British Consul were at one time the only foreigners within the walls. Now, having just revisited Nanking, Mr. Helissen comments on the monal growth and modernization of the capital, achieved in such a small space of time. halt months, whereas Tile Rasmussen spent five months walching the campaign.
'From Abyssinia Sr, Hellsson went to Egypt, then another storm centre, trid thence back home to Copenhagen, Having spent the summer' in Don-mark, he came to China via Suez, He doesn't expect to return to Copenhagen til next autumn.
In his career he has interviewed as diferent personalities as the former Kaiser and Pope Benedict XV, Queen Marie of Rumania and Gen. Feng. Vu-hsiang. Others whom he has met as a journalist are the Kings of Italy and Rumania, the late Emperor Karl, ex-King Alfonso of Spain, three Kings of Greece, the former Crown Prince of Germany, Mussolini and Hiller and, in China, Gen, Chiang Kal-shek, Gen. Chang Hsuch-Tiang and the late Shantung war lord, Gen, Chang Chung-chang.
Also Much Travelled Mr, Hellssen's colleague, Mr. Tillge-Rasmussen, started his' newspaper career in Copenhagen ten years ago and was for two years the corres-Pondent of "Politiken" in Paris, He served a term as News Editor and then started travelling -again. He has represented hhis paper in. various ts of Europe and North America (particularly in Canada), Africa, Greenland and. Tecland, saw most of the war in Abyssinia and was in the entourage of Emperor Hollo Selassie when the Lion of Judah went (o Dessle, Incidentally he Henry Hellssen and Mr. Hellssen of the
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