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When Soviet machinations in revolution-torn Sinkiang province brought an order to get rid of all "questionable" foreigners, the roundup produced seven individuals as mysterious as Serafimov, who traveled together until further machinations caused a further splitting up of their ranks. Serafimov's victim was a fastidious, ratlike Belgian named Goupillière. A murderer himself, Goupillière's face was "as subtle as a woman's, as ambiguous as a thief's," since it was divided by an ugly scar left when a mistress had tried to kill him with a pair of scissors...
...remembrance of these grim events, bells tolled mournfully last week in every Belgian village. It was the 23rd anniversary of Aug. 4. 1914, the day when the first patrol of German Uhlans crossed the Belgian border at Gemmenich. Old Field Marshal Graf von Schlieffen's 19-year-old plan to crush France at a single blow by a wide sweep through Belgium was at last being put to the test. The Treaty of 1839 guaranteeing Belgium's territorial integrity had become a scrap of paper. A four years' holocaust had begun...
...While Belgian peasants harkened one morning to the sombre ringing of bells, Londoners were being wakened by the sound of guns. From Hyde Park and the Tower of London 41 thundering discharges shook the metropolis and Londoners hardly turned a hair. They barely recalled the 23rd anniversary of Britain's going to war but they were well aware of the 37th anniversary of another event, the birth of a girl child- her ninth-to the amiable and motherly Countess of Strathmore & Kinghorne. It was the birthday of England's new Queen Elizabeth...
...conclusion of the World War the famed Antwerp zoo was sadly depleted. New York's comradely N. Y. Zoological Park shipped to Antwerp 325 birds and animals. Thus, when Dr. William Reid Blair, genial director of the Zoological Park, made a bid for the Buta okapi, the Belgian Government saw fit to repay past kindness by giving him to Dr. Blair at a price far below that offered. But the okapi did not immediately leave Buta. In view of the indifferent success a few zoos have had in keeping them, Dr. Blair decided to let his okapi become accustomed...
...November day in 1935 a babbling, excited band of pygmies pranced into the Catholic Mission at Buta, in the Belgian Congo, carrying with them a baby okapi, scarcely a dozen days old. They had captured him 90 miles away in the surrounding Ituri Forest, a jungle so dense that only a pygmy can penetrate it. Delightedly the Buta brothers caught up the little animal...