Mcdonald, COLIN MALCOLM (1899-1982)
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McDONALD, COLIN MALCOLM (1899-1982) West Australian born Colin McDonald began his career with The West Australian newspaper after World War 1 and worked at Fremantle. He left Western Australia as a young man and joined newspapers in Malaya and Hong Kong before going to China to represent The London Times and Reuters newspapers. McDonald married Miss Phyllis Margaret Allum in London in December 1936. Miss Allum had left Perth in 1922 to continue her musical studies at the Royal College of Music, London. The marriage was dissolved in 1954. McDonald covered the Second Sino-Japanese war and earned an expeditionary medal from the United States Navy for his presence of mind during the USS Panay incident on the Yangtse River in 1937. After the start of World War 11, McDonald was sent to Washington by the British Foreign Office, as an advisor on China to the United States Government. When the war ended, he returned to The Times in London and eventually to Perth. In his later years he contributed a number of articles on Asia to The West Australian newspaper. Source: The West Australian, 28 April 1937, 28 April 1954 & 15 December 1982 LEGEND CMMcD –Colin M.McDonald PRIVATE ARCHIVES MANUSCRIPT NOTE (MN3011; ACC 8536A, 8681A) SUMMARY OF CLASSES BOX LISTING ONLY, including: Cables (telegraphic) – audio cassettes – correspondence – manuscripts – notes – notebooks – photographs – press cuttings – publications – transcripts – typescripts. China, 20th century history – 2nd Sino-Japanese War – World War 11 – USS Panay incident – William Lewisohn – Chanon (pseudonym), “Excelsior” – The Times (newspaper) – British Broadcasting Corporation MN3011 Page 1 of 38 Copyright SLWA ©2013 Acc. No. DESCRIPTION 8536A/1.1 Date range: 1931-1962 Press cuttings: Women, including, marriage, fashion, children, feminism Typescripts: ‘Bound Feet’ - ‘Talk by Jean Tsien’ - ‘Women of the United Nations in the War, Chinese Women’ (passed by Censor) 8536A/1.2 Date range: 1938-1961 Typescripts: Spies – espionage and intelligence, including Chinese, Japanese, German, American and British experiences / activities 8536A/1.3 Date range: 1939-1962 Press cuttings: Narcotics – opium production and trafficking Typescript: ‘Japan and the Dangerous Drug Traffic’ (passed by Censor) – ‘Salt Mines Beyond Chengtu’ 8536A/1.4 Date range: 1938-1948 Music, drama, films, radio and sports in China Typescript: ‘Chungking Likes Historical Plays’ 8536A/1.5 Date range: 1934-1961 Oddities, includes items on ‘monkeys’ 8536A/1.6 Date range: 1935-1948 Press cuttings: Austerity – bans on gambling, dancing, songs , sale of cosmetics, etc in China 8536A/1.7 Date range: 1938-1948 Press cuttings: Trade, industries, currency in China Typescripts: ‘Economic Development Before 1937’ (passed by Censor) 8536A/1.8 Date range: 1938-1953 Press cuttings: Transport in China, including railways, air travel, roads and waterways Typescripts: ‘Communications in Free China’; ‘It is Impossible to Blockade China’; and ‘Chinese Railways’ (passed by Censor) 8536A/1.9 Date range: 1938-1955 Press cuttings: War correspondents (including bravery award for CMMcD), the Chinese press, China’s wartime literature Typescripts: ‘Foreign Correspondents’ (fragment, 13pp) – ‘China’ (lists Chinese newspapers) 8536A/1.10 Date range: 1938-1950 Press cuttings: Shipping activities and losses in wartime 8536A/1.11 Date range: 1939-1946 Press cuttings: Chinese coverage of war in Europe Typescripts: ‘Shanghai’s KKK’ (Knatty Knitters’ Klub, knitting for British troops on the Western Front) – ‘The British War Effort in China’ 8536A/1.12 Date range: 1934-1955 Press cuttings: Chinese foreign relations, including with Russia, France, America and England 8536A/1.13 Date range: 1938-1948 Press cuttings: China war, education Typescripts: ‘Secondary Education in Three Years of War’ – ‘Item 462B’ – Wartime Education Adjustments in China’. Also handwritten jotting 8536A/1.14 Date range: 1935-1946 MN3011 Page 2 of 38 Copyright SLWA ©2013 Press cuttings: Items on puppet government officials Typescripts: Individual biographies (of varying lengths) of many puppet government officials 8536A/1.15 Date range: 1942-1962 Press cuttings: War activities in Borneo, including the Australian landing on Tarakan Typescripts: Items regarding oil on Boreo – ‘Borneo’ (two items) – items on Balikpapan 8536A/2.1 Date range: 1938-1963 Press cuttings: Air raids on targets in China. Includes article on the construction of an airfield by Chinese labourers for launching B-29 bombers against Japan 8536A/2.2 Date range: 1938-1961 Press cuttings: Guerrilla warfare in China. Includes article on the formation of the SAS by David Stirling 8536A/2.3 Date range: 1933-1961 Press cuttings: Communists in China 8536A/2.4 Date range: 1937-1943 Press cuttings: Medical services, treatment of the war wounded in China 8536A/2.5 Date range: 1940-1948 Press cuttings: Social and other changes resulting from war Typescripts: ‘The War and the Sinosocial Structure’ – ‘Social Changes in China’ 8536A/2.6 Date range: 1937-1948 Press cuttings: Experiences of Western individuals, Christian missionaries and Jews in China, Russia-China and Russia-Japan pacts, China-Axis Powers relations, places of interest and myths Typescripts: ‘’Kiangsi Province’ – ‘Nanchang’ 8536A/2.7 Date range: 1935-1962 Press cuttings: Chinese army, Japanese army in China Typescript: ‘Homage to Two Ancient Chinese Warriors’ 8536A/2.8 Date range: 1938-1952 Press cuttings: U.S. “Flying Tigers” in operations over China Typescripts: ‘U.S. Paper Describes Far-Flung U.S. Airforce’ – jotting – book review 8536A/2.9 Date range: 1935-1958 Press cuttings: Shanghai - various topics Typescripts: ‘Far East News Letter, New Delhi’ – ‘Streets’ – (no title) on protecting British interests in China) 8536A/2.10 Date range: 1934-1955 Press cuttings: Chinese army and soldiers, also Indian and Russian soldiers Typescripts: ‘Chinese Army’- ‘Life of Chinese Soldiers is Improved’ - ‘Treatment of Chinese Officers and Men Improved’ – ‘A Better Commissariat for the Chinese Army’ – ‘The Material of the Chinese Army’ – ‘Chinese Army Ration Slightly Increased’ – ‘Sino armies in burma’ 8536A/2.11 Date range: 1937-1963 (2 folders) MN3011 Page 3 of 38 Copyright SLWA ©2013 Press cuttings: War crimes trials, Japanese attack on Hong Kong, accounts by survivors Typescripts: ‘HongKong – Brief Military Outline’ – ‘Copy’ (on Japanese attack on Hong Kong) – ‘S.K. Yee’s Report’ - ‘Report from Kwongtung Province’ – (no title), on Japanese attack on Hong Kong – ‘Mobilisation …’ – ‘Communiques …’ - ‘Page 10’ (fragment) Map: Hand-drawn mud map of Hong Kong and environs 8536A/3.1 Date range: 1926-1963 Press cuttings: Chinese theatre, music, film 8536A/3.2 Date range: 1933-1957 Press cuttings: Chinese philosophy, religions and religious missions to China Typescript: ‘Chinese Characteristics (II Religion)’ 8536A/3.3 Date range: 1930-1963 (2 folders) Press cuttings: Chinese literature and language, including fiction, poetry, non-fiction, language, education in China, libraries, books, the press in China Typescripts: ‘The Beard of the Dragon’ - ‘Hymn No. 9, The transliteration in harmony with music’ (Chinese characters) - ‘A Guide to the Pronunciation of Chinese’ - ‘Simple Rules About Chinese Proper Nouns, their Pronunciations, and Meanings’ 8536A/3.4 Date range: 1930-1963 Press cuttings: Mongolia. Includes booklet, ‘The Chenghis Khan Celebrations’ (1935) Typescript: ‘Postscript to the Pamirs or An Essay on Argols’ 8536A/3.5 Date range: 1924-1962 (2 folders) Press cuttings: Tibet. Includes Tibet and China, Tibet and India, Dalai Lama, conquest of Everest Manuscript: ‘Tibet’ Typescripts: ‘Abominable Snowman’ - ‘Lung Sha, Ex-C.M.C. of Tibetan Army, Born 1884’ - ‘Szechwan’ - ‘July 31, 1934, at the Feng Cheh Yuan’ - ‘Tibet-1’ Includes two photographs (n.d., no caption) 8536A/4 Date range: 1946-1979 (5 folders) Press cuttings: China, various topics Includes ‘Mao Tse-Tung, A book list’, n.d. (1979?) 8536A/5 Date range: 1928-1980 Press cuttings: Far East, South East Asia, Central Asia Includes ‘Clippings’ categorised under handwritten labels, others grouped by subject matter, loose cuttings various MN3011 Page 4 of 38 Copyright SLWA ©2013 8536A/6 Date range: 1926-1980 (5 folders) Press cuttings: Far East, China Typescript: ‘Chinese Who Was Blown Out to Sea’ Includes ‘Clippings’ categorised under handwritten labels, others grouped by subject matter, loose cuttings various 8536A/7.1 Date range: July – December 1939 (2 folders) ‘Times Chronological File’ Press cuttings: Wartime reports on China, from various countries including China, Japan, Russia, Germany and England. The earlier list indicates these are Colin McDonald’s own reports. He is not named, and they are datelined from various locations in China and other countries. “A (or “Our”) Special Correspondent” may refer to CMMcD 8536A/7.2 Date range: January – June 1940 (2 folders) ‘Times Chronological File’ Press cuttings: Wartime reports on China and relations with Japan and other countries. Also, reports and pictures of the installation of the new (child) Dalai Lama 8536A/7.3 Date range: July – December 1940 (2 folders) ‘Times Chronological File’ Press cuttings: Wartime reports on China and relations with Japan and other countries 8536A/8.1 Date range: 31 May 1936 - ? December 1937 Bound volume of copies of cables to the Times, London from CMMcD. These and the following cables chart the escalation of difficulties between China and Japan and what that meant for the concession countries. Includes detailed account of bombing of ship on