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Last week another famed newspaper got out an anniversary number: the Newark, N. J. Evening News, aged. 50. Founded by the late Wallace Mcllvaine Scudder, philanthropist, attorney, onetime engineer, the first issue contained a full account of the trial of Frank James, brother of Bandit Jesse James. The issue sold 10,000 copies. Now owned by Founder Scudder's son, the News sells 150,000 copies...
Between the Nanking Government of North & Central China and its loosely subservient ally, the Canton Government in South China, is an area of great lakes, marshes and mountains pullulating with bandit Communist armies. Harassed from all sides last week, the tattered, hungry Communists saw to the east the fat fields of Fukien Province just before the harvest, beyond that the sea whence come their smuggled guns. Some 40,000 of them boiled down from the mountains, swept a small local army out of their way. Up to meet them swaggered Canton's 19th Route Army, famed for its defense...
...last week Russia had still clung, through a thousand skirmishes, intrigues and bandit wars, to her original line across North Manchuria, a road named the "Chinese Eastern Railway" in a deliberate attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow...
...bandit raid attempted to seize $50,000 Mex. from the Mukden branch of National City Bank...
...Aged U. S. Missionary Niels Nielsen, kidnapped in April, was still in bandit hands last week, as were three British ships' officers, kidnapped last March, despite vigorous Japanese efforts to obtain the release of all four...