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...ttingen. including the aristocratic Korps. Promptly more than 1,000 capped and beribboned student nabobs met in mass protest. While they vowed defiance to Adolf Hitler's minions, capless and unribboned students approached, jeering the Korps, shouting "Heil Hitler!" At this the nabobs attacked, starting the bloodiest riot seen in years at Gottingen. To stop it shocked professors called the police who called firemen who rushed to the scene with all Gottingen's fire engines and restored order by heroic squirting...
...their encounter with it. The Author, at 32, is already acknowledged as a front-rank European writer. Son of a French civil servant, he went to Indo-China at 20. made an archaeological expedition to Cambodia and Siam, was not only an eyewitness of some of China's bloodiest revolutionary years (1925-27) but an actor in them. He was Commissioner of Propaganda for the revolutionary government of the South ; as a member of the Committee of Twelve he helped direct the Canton insurrection, saw plenty of hand-to-hand fighting. His story of" the Shanghai rising...
...young Royalists tore through the streets. Some were headed by brass bands, some carried the tricolor, some the red flag. Each group was for a different cause but all were united against the small-mindedness of the Chamber of Deputies. In the broad Place de la Concorde occurred the bloodiest street battles Paris has seen since 1871. Drawn up at the opposite end of the square were blue-caped police, steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles and mounted squadrons of the Garde Républicaine, guarding the bridge across the Seine to the Chamber. The first volleys went high above the crowd...
Jean III. Scrawls of VIVE LE ROI! on walls and sidewalks and roaring young Royalists swinging loaded canes were not lost upon a very tall, very dignified exile in Belgium. Two days after the bloodiest fighting the Royalist newspaper Action Française published a manifesto that had come by special courier from Brussels...
...White Russian commanders, a stiff match for Bolivia's German officers under General Kundt. Soon in the jungle grass 2,000 men lay dead. Above & below Fort Nanawa the Bolivians had broken through but Nanawa-Paraguay's Verdun-still stood after the Gran Chaco's bloodiest battle...