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...valley where the long-tusked elephants die, she accepts all hardships calmly and only squeals once, when she topples over a precipice and is barely saved by a ragged rope. The final test of her imperturbability comes when she is kidnapped by a yodeling athlete in a loin cloth who swings her up to his nest at the top of a tree and turns out to be Tarzan of the Apes...
...Bombay a mob set fire to the police .station, put out the city lights, built huge bonfires of British cloth. Police fired into the crowd, charged with flailing lathis (sticks). Many heads were cracked, hundreds of rioters arrested. The Bombay-Benares express was derailed. Hundreds were arrested in Calcutta and New Delhi for reciting the declaration of independence in public and singing patriotic songs. At the end of three days eight persons had been killed, 1,000 jailed, many sentenced to three years' hard labor...
During the construction of the Memorial Chapel and the new portion of Adams House, an unusual kind of material is being used in the windows until the glass can be put in. Instead of the customary cheese-cloth, a material made of cellophane reinforced with burlap is in use to keep out the rain and snow, and make the buildings canier to heat during the process of construction. It is similar to the material used in shipping coffee from South American ports...
...capital to the right of the large Madonna and Child statue, represents on its principal face the angel appearing to Zacharias. The priest of the course of Abia is officiating at an altar covered with a cloth. In his right hand he holds a censer, in the left a book, but both objects are now much broken. Gabriel, with arms, stands before him. On the left face of the capital, Elizabeth, accompanied by a handmaiden or possibly a youth, is represented. On the right face, a genre scene representing the life about a mediaeval church is carved. The bell-ringer...
Half of India had heard of Krishna Kant next day. Nationalist agitators thanked their stars for an easy martyr. Wholesale arrests continued. Indian papers printed page-long lists of political convictions. In Bombay, crowds searched houses for British cloth, built bonfires of it in the streets. Bengal police fired into a crowd, killed one, wounded...