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...peasants in Anhui province were arrested for setting fire to 4,000 acres of forest, destroying 120,000 saplings (Shanghai Liberation Daily, Feb. 25). In the same paper: 435,000 trees on 750 acres of forest in five counties of Fukien destroyed by arson; 280 cases of forest arson being investigated...
Upper Hand. He was scarcely a welcome addition. Philippine armymen bluntly recommended that Bandit Taruc be brought to trial (for murder, treason and arson) and quickly sentenced to death. They well remembered Taruc's last"surrender"-in 1948, when he accepted an amnesty, returned to his seat in the Philippine Congress (to which he was elected in the liberation days of 1946), collected his back pay, and skedaddled back to the Luzon hills. This time, snapped General Jesus Vargas, the army's chief of staff, no deal had been made; Magsaysay owed Taruc nothing."We have the upper...
Woman's Privilege. In Williamsport, Pa., charged with arson, Howard Krause told police that he had set fire to his newly bought house only because his wife suddenly decided she did not want to live...
Equality. In New Orleans, Aaron B. Smith, charged with arson, confessed that he helped set fire to five public schools, doing $85,000 damage, because he had only been through the first grade himself and "didn't want to see anybody else get an education...
...plan for a European Army. The method would be to rouse France's ancient fears of German arms. Said John Foster Dulles this week in Manhattan: "Distrust between France and Germany is inflammable, and already Soviet agents are looking to it as a means for international arson...