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...Chamberlain went home to forward the latest German demands to Prague and then await events...
...artillery and some thousands of Red Army troops were beaten back after Soviet Far East Marshal Vasily Bluecher had hurled them in a major offensive to recapture Changkufeng Hill. Mr. Stomoniakov, as. Moscow's ace Far East expert, had presumably been advising Commissar Litvinoff to stand firm and await a Russian victory. After Stomoniakov was fired, Commissar Litvinoff quickly came to terms with Ambassador Shigemitsu, who had proposed the truce in the first place. It became effective at noon on August 11-just four days after the secret ousting of Stomoniakov...
...Queen religious festival, gathered, and 20 youngsters, many of them sons of the firemen, clambered into an old four-story frame building. The boys were paid 45? to play the part of "tenants." The firemen, having doused the structure with gasoline, retired to their station 400 yards away to await the alarm...
PREDICT TIME WILL HAVE TO ADD TO STAFF TO HANDLE LETTER DELUGE THAT WILL RESULT FROM SLY EDITORS' NEW DEAL QUERY . . . [TIME, June 20]. EAGERLY I AWAIT THE COMING INEVITABLE THOUSAND DIFFERENT ATTEMPTED DEFINITIONS OF THE NEW DEAL...
...area, spreading death. Toll from Yellow River floods is not so much from quick drowning as from gradual disease and starvation. The river's filth settles ankle-deep on the fields, mothering germs, smothering crops. Last week, about 500,000 peasants were driven from 2,000 communities to await rescue or death on whatever dry ground they could find. Thousands huddled miserably on the high right-of-way of the Lunghai Railroad, which for months has been a fulcrum for the see-sawing central China warfare...