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While grim Japanese moved to crush Jehol in the jaws of a major offensive, short, stout, redoubtable Governor Tang Yulin put on a one-man Chinese rodeo in his yamen at Chengteh, delighted correspondents with Chinese cowboy feats. (Jehol has been called China's "Wild East...
...varying size have been fought all over the world. There were the Imperialist and Polish wars against the Soviet Union, the Grace-Turkish fracas, the Poles versus Galicia, the Afghan invasion of India, and the war between Roumauta and Hungary. Until 1926 the Spanish and French were attempting to crush the Riffs. In 1923 the Italians bombarded Corfu. In 1929 the Chinese and Russians saw action in Manchuria. For the last few years Japan has been grappling with China in the same region; while in South America there has been continual friction. At the present moment Bolivia and Paraguay...
...simply informed by Belgrade's Police Chief that "during His Majesty's pleasure" he will be interned in a village near ominous Sarajevo, birth village of the World War. Father Koroshetz will be interned at another village. Belgrade newshawks heard that King Alexander "is now determined to crush Croat and Slovene discontent with iron severity." How did His Majesty, recently reported suffering from a bad case of nerves, suddenly recover and become so cocky? The answer seemed to be "Sinaia...
...metal. Willing, brawny arms hauled an old automobile into the plant, hitched its engine to the News press. Crowds milled around the doors to watch the first edition come out only an hour and a half late with the streamer headline: N. I. P. ADMITS PART IN CONSPIRACY TO CRUSH NEWS...
...competition with citizens. The N. P. M. A. replied that it was grower-owned and controlled, borrowing money from the Farm Board only as it would from a bank. Last week Southland President Sidney Goldberg Simmons told the entire trade that, "like a giant octopus whose tentacles envelop and crush the object of its prey, the N. P. M. A. is slowly but surely undermining the foundation of a great industry. . . . Our vigilance has been too keen to render us a martyr to the cause ... if the rights are taken from the people, then we can expect no lesser fate...