It is inevitable when Mr. Vespa's story of his treatment at the hands of the Japanese is read that the conclusion must be formed that much of what he has written is to some extent blassed by the misfortunes inflicted upon him. His reproduction verbatim of lengthy conversations between himself and his Japanese masters—oviously were written from memory, for he would not have been permitted "fo take a shorthand note during their progress—must be regarded as influenced by his own sufferings and those which might at any time, according to his statement, have been inflicted upon his family. But even making considerable allow ance for the very natural bias inevitable in the circumstances, Mr. Vespa tells an amazing tale. It is "claimed by Mr. Edgar Snow that this work should create an international sensation, and even with the count which it is suggested must be applied to Mr. Vespa's story, that claim seems in a fair way towards justification, It is a story of the alleged Japanese dealings in white slavery, narcotics, and activities more to be associated with the underworld than, as he claims, with officers of ihe Japanese gendarmerie and army in Manchoukuo.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.