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...Manhattan the 88th birthday of the late Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was celebrated by proxy by Mrs. Annie Ide Cockran, who has had full and undisputed right to Stevenson's birthday (November 13) for 47 years. Reason: in 1891 her father, General Henry Clay Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his great & good friend Stevenson that his small daughter Annie always felt aggrieved because her birthday fell on December 25. Straightway Author Stevenson drew up, signed, had witnessed a document transferring to her all the rights & privileges...
Meanwhile, around Nanking utterly raw, undrilled Chinese youths, most of whom scarcely knew how to use a rifle, were flung against advancing Japanese regulars, and horribly butchered. The crack, German-drilled Chinese 88th Division under ruthless officers, conserving its own strength, drove the Chinese recruits forward and shot in the back those who broke and ran. Twelve miles from Nanking 300 Chinese were surrounded atop a hill by Japanese who set fire to the long grass. It set fire to the trees, burned fiercely completely around the hill, slowly forcing the 300 Chinese to the top. There Japanese machine guns...
...defenders executed in the night what foreign military experts in Shanghai called one of the most orderly and efficient retreats ever made in Oriental warfare. Stimulating to morale throughout China was the staying behind in a Chapei warehouse of 500 Chinese troops of "Chiang's Own"-the famed 88th Division of Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Japanese troops, advancing at sunrise under their Empire's Rising Sun flag, soon had the warehouse surrounded on three sides, the fourth being toward the British position in Shanghai's International Settlement. As Japanese light artillery poured converging fire into...
Last week on the South Side, now a congested mill district, for the 88th time solemn high mass was celebrated in St. Michael's for hundreds of Catholics, some of them sons and grandsons of those delivered from the plague, some of them old parishioners who traveled hundreds of miles for the event. All were permitted to kiss the church's prized reliquary containing a bit of one of St. Roch's bones...
...spanning 158½-ft.-deep Arroyo Seco in which squats the Rose Bowl. According to local legend, when this bridge was built in 1912, several workmen were buried alive in the concrete and their tortured spirits haunt the place. Certainly it has been a sorry spot: fortnight ago the 88th person jumped to death over its low parapet...