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Tongking and Annam are ruled today as they were 400 years ago, by pale, effete coral-and-jade buttoned mandarins, kept in power by French rifles. After the War thousands of native Tongkingese troops went back to their country with new ideas of democracy. Republican and Communist ideas have seeped south from China proper. Rebellion began against the autocratic power of the mandarins some years ago, became a rebellion against France. First shots were fired more than two years ago when an Annamite garrison at Yen Bay on the China frontier mutinied and killed their French officers. Since then secret...
...almost as brilliant, his draughtsmanship almost as good as the meticulous Pierre Roy, but his subjects are different-not bits of ribbon, seashells or birds' eggs. He paints ships, omitting rigging and portholes, paring the hulls down to essential forms. He does landscapes of jagged tropical mountain ranges, coral-robed natives under tattered banana fronds, and the steel grey lattice work of cranes against a smoky sky. One of his most effective canvases, Trois Mats le Jeanne d'Arc, shows the trim white hull of the Joan of Arc moored at quayside, her three bare poles and spars...
...stray cats in the U. S., to have the remaining 42,000,000 others licensed. New York and California laws permit the shooting of cats. Coral Gables, Fla. requires the belling of household cats. No community requires licensing...
...been a hotbed of anti-Machado intrigue ever since a member of Dictator Machado's Cabinet was snubbed by a Yacht Club member last December and President Gerardo Machado, El Gallo ("The Rooster"), pad locked the clubhouse in retaliation. Fort night ago Julio Cadena's yacht Coral slipped away from the yacht club pier with Cuba's onetime President, bearded Mario Garcia Menocal on board, also Colonel Carlos Mendieta and a shipload of other insurgents. Their plan was to go down the coast, land, take charge of revo lutionary forces that had already taken the field, sweep...
Cuba's entire navy put to sea. Army planes roared off from Havana Field to join the chase, but the Coral was too sly for them, slipped away in the haze...