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...Italian "volunteers" again got away with the biggest helping. At the head of the parade of 80,000 troops rode the Italian Chief of Staff, General Gastone Gambara. Behind his strutting chestnut pony came the Italian Littorio Division and the Italian members of the Black, Blue and Green Arrow Legions. Overhead, 30 Italian planes flew in a formation of the Fascist emblem. When the Italian forces had passed on, the Rebel divisions were allowed to pick up the leavings...
...Willmott's informants were the editors of The Arrow, latest of British weekly newssheets, recently started by the diplomatic correspondents of the Manchester Guardian and Yorkshire Post. Latest issue of The Arrow to reach the U. S. says that German air mobilization is now 95% complete, that the rest of the mobilization program is now progressing on this schedule...
Long before William Tell displayed his skill with bow & arrow, Saxon wood carvers engaged in a sport called Vogelschiessen (shooting at wooden birds perched on poles). Last week, at Saxony Rest near Milwaukee, 400 of their U. S. descendants gathered for their annual jamboree and Vogelschiessen tournament...
...Italian "Black Arrow" contingent advanced fortnight ago, broadcasting their achievement directly to Rome, whence it was rebroadcast to all Italy. Then at the gates of Tortosa they ceased broadcasting. Generalissimo Franco, after the Black Arrows had failed for eleven days to take Tortosa, last week politely left them to continue their efforts, sent a smashing 100% Rightist Spanish offensive under General Miguel Aranda driving down to the sea a few miles south of Tortosa. Viñaroz was the first seaside town to be occupied. There General Aranda's Galician troops went down to the shore and jubilantly planted...
...Potter will shortly have another arrow in his quiver-a report soon to be released by the impartial SEC on Mr. Young's proposed simplification of the Alleghany empire. SEC records show that this plan, formulated by a group preponderantly interested in the common stock of Alleghany, would benefit the common stock at the expense of other Alleghany and Chesapeake securities, notably the Series A Alleghany preferred. The owners of the 667,539 shares of this issue (among them Donaldson Brown and Mr. & Mrs. Young) were asked to surrender the right to accumulated dividends of $33 per share...