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Hearing the approaching alarums of a Communist-bandit horde coming fast down the Yuan River, the Misses Granner and Renninger hopped into a small Chinese junk and told the boatman to make haste by sail and oar for the city of Changteh. As the square-bowed, flat-bottomed boat slithered downstream, the army's hubbub crept up behind. The junk was lolloping along 20 miles short of Changteh when it was overhauled and seized by the bandits...
...Herbert Youngblood followed him to death in March. Federal men got Dillinger himself in July. One month later Homer Van Meter was shot down in St. Paul. As 1934 drew to a close the only Dillinger gangster of any importance left at large was John Hamilton, 35-year-old bandit who killed a sheriff while helping his chief escape from jail at Lima, Ohio...
...Father Is with God" Only three months before his assassination King Alexander completed on the hill of Oplenatz, 50 miles from Belgrade, a vast neo-Byzantine family tomb. Therein he installed his swineherd ancestor ''Black George," the peasant who became a bandit, then a general, and finally the "Liberator of Serbia." The mausoleum is in the form of a multidomed church with a crypt beneath for the royal Kara-Georgevitches, the descendants of Black George. Last week green lights burned in the crypt. When King Alexander's body, brought by train and motor hearse from Belgrade...
Across 1,000 miles of Asia's bandit-infested "Wild East" stretches the Chinese Eastern Railway, spanning Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo from frontier to frontier and serving as a short-cut for the Trans-Siberian Line between Moscow and Vladivostok. Japan has had a wolfish eye on C. E. R. ever since it was built by Imperial Russia, which retained a half interest in the road. This half interest Soviet Ambassador Yurenev offered last year to sell for 250,000,000 gold rubles (then $168,000,000). Japan insisted that the nominal buyer must be Manchukuo...
Meanwhile Manchukuan troops under Japanese officers swooped out along the lines of C. E. R., arresting 46 station agents and engineers. They were taken to Harbin and jailed on the pretext that a plot had been discovered to assassinate hollow-eyed Emperor Kang Teh. According to the Japanese, bandit raids on C. E. R. have been financed by Soviet agents from the Red Army base at Khabarovsk. Finally last week the Imperial Japanese Army propaganda bureau in Tokyo issued what Russians interpreted as a threat that Japan means eventually to seize C. E. R. without paying Moscow so much...