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...enemies that ringed him, traded them death for death until 500,000 men had died on both sides and he had only 60,000 men left. Then Elisabeth of Russia died, and her son, Peter III, made peace, returning Pomerania to Prussia. That made the Swedes withdraw. France, bled white by England's attack on her colonies, retreated beyond the Rhine, and exhausted Austria left Frederick the master of Silesia...
...bull that has been bled and hurt by picadores and banderilleros charges a matador with fresh power and fury,* Russia's lumbering Army, baffled and beaten at Suomussalmi last fortnight, last week hurled itself against the Finns in another sector. Strengthened by reinforcements, a division that had dug itself in near Salla on the north-central front began moving westward, heading for Kemijärvi, which a small Russian force occupied momentarily in the first week of the war (TIME, Dec. 18). The Finns gave way. By week's end the Russians were within 13 miles of Kemij...
...whacked a bottle of champagne on one of the goal posts, 500 bewildered natives, most of whom had never seen a football game except in the newsreels, watched the Sourdoughs beat the Baranofs, 6-to-0. The Gold Bowl was a cinder-strewn field, frozen sandpaper-rough. But nobody bled much. The players, onetime U. S. college footballers living in Alaska, were dressed in uniforms donated by the University of Washington...
...train at Bled, Yugoslavia, last week hopped Premier George Kiosseivanoff, of Bulgaria. This Balkan statesman had just visited Berlin, where he had passed through flag-lined streets, been put up at sumptuous Bellevue Castle and been feasted by Fuhrer Hitler at the Chancellery. At Bled, a Yugoslav summer resort, M. Kiosseivanoff had a reception less toney, but just as friendly. High point of his stop-over was a visit to Castle Brno, where he chatted long and amiably with the polished, cultured Prince Paul, First Regent of Yugoslavia...
...strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested, but Japanese marines batted him over the skull with a gun-butt. What happened next is not clear. Japanese claimed Tinkler threatened them with a revolver, observed that "he came into contact with Japanese bayonets." One thing was clear, however: Tinkler slowly bled from internal hemorrhage during the 20 hours the Japanese kept him incommunicado. That night he was taken, not to the International Settlement, but to a hospital in Japanese-controlled Hongkew where two Japanese & two German surgeons performed an emergency operation while Japanese sentries stood guard. Briton Tinkler died...