How Mr. Donald Went To China
OHN GUNTHER’S sstory of how W. H. Donald first went to China goes something like this: When Donald was working on the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" he found a cable from Hong Kong on his desk one morning. It asked him to leave at once and take a position on a newspaper there, and said that he would find £120 passage money transferred to his account in a Sydney bank. Puzzled, Donald asked his editor whether he thought this was a hoax. "Only one way to find out," said the editor, "Go to*the bank and see if the money is there. If it is, go to Hong Kong by all means." The money WAS there, so Donald took ship for Hong Kong on the strength of it, still mystified. At his destination he sought out the editor of the paper and introduced himself. "Oh, yes, Mr. Donald," said the editor, "I’ve been expecting you. That's your desk in the corner there, if you’d like to start work at once." "Yes, but could I ask what this is all about?" asked Donald. "Why am 1 getting the job? Surely you've never heard of me----" "On the contrary,’ smiled the editor. "I have heard of you. You see I have a friend who travels round the world a good deal as a correspondent, and some time ago I asked him to let me know if ever he found a newspaperman who doesn’t drink. Recently I got a cable from him saying that he had at last found such a man. You're the one-here’s the job if you want it." And W,. H. Donald has never looked back.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 121, 17 October 1941, Unnumbered Page
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