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Reduced to its essentials, Dark Rapture is merely the record of a trip into the Belgian Congo by Armand Denis...
...anxious to stock their coffers with all the gold they can lay hands on, French police were especially chagrined last week, when, from under their very noses, bandits got away with $1,890,000 in gold, the largest haul in French criminal history. The gold, being shipped to a Belgian smelting plant from the Belgian Congo, was unceremoniously stowed aboard an ordinary freight train northbound from Marseille one night last week. Few miles outside the city, the train's emergency brakes were jammed on. As trainmen and guards swung down to investigate, six masked men whooped out from...
...heroic King Albert had faced the Germans alone, suddenly deserted by the Great Powers as was Czechoslovakia this week, even the redoubtable Belgian Sovereign might have shown less courage, resourcefulness and firmness than did President Eduard Benes last week. Astonished Prague learned on Wednesday evening from press wires that Neville Chamberlain would fly on Thursday morning to Berchtesgaden, bitterly observed that the violent Sudeten German riots which broke out on Monday night, directly after Hitler's Nürnberg speech, had been quelled by police and gendarmes so effectively that at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday orders went...
...father, Rev. Paul Ward. Four Jocist study groups have been started. Jocist Ferrari, no worker himself, last week appeared minded to modify the thoroughly radical temper of European Jocism. Full of zeal against Communism, he seemed less interested in spreading labor unions (of which the Pope and French, and Belgian Jocists are vigorous champions) than in making "immoral" magazines in the U. S. the first target of Jocist artillery...
...Valencia, with a pre-War population of 350,000 now swollen by refugees to an estimated 1,000,000, children were forbidden the frequently bombed beaches. A public subscription was started to send children inland to safe colonies. Twenty-five ambulances sent from abroad reached Valencia. Belgian Non-intervention Observer Paul Heemans was wounded in an air attack...