Show I FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS II Clark Lee Orient Lee Australia 1 Few war reporters have seen as much actual combat as Clark Chang Lee of the Associated Press When the Japanese Invaded the Philippines he rushed from Manila to the front back the first witness eye-witness accounts His graphic dispatches dispatch s from beleaguered be be- Bataan made journalistiC journalistic journalistic journal journal- the history best this war has produced on any front the Infantry Journal semiofficial publication said He escaped to Australia shortly before the fall of Bataan I probably was lucky Lee said to get out with nothing more serious than a a. broken I hand suffered while diving into a a. foxhole to escape strafing planes and a a. few small scars the result of being blown off offa a dock at Corregidor by a shell He comes by naturally His father now dead was one of the founders of United Press His mother writes a a. column for the Newark N. N J. J Sunday Call His sister once was society editor of the Newark Star Born January 31 1907 In Oakland Cal Ca Lee moved with his his' family to Maplewood N. N J J. J f 5 5 v 4 S t- t CLARK LEE during World war warL warI I. I Tall rangy and athletic he entered Rutgers in 1925 and played varsity third base He joined the Associated Press at Newark Newark- in 1929 two years ater at r went to the Latin America desk in lit New York He was appointed chief of bureau at Mexico City in August 1933 and chief of bureau at Honolulu in June 1936 He was transferred transferred trans tram to Tokyo in August 1938 and remained there until April 1939 when he was sent to Shanghai In the fall of 1941 he was scheduled to return to the United States on furlough He got only as far as Manila Manna |