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...their food as she came down stairs to sell her famous miniature nickel-plated hatchets. Students pressed around her, offering her cigars and cigarettes, and feigning great surprise when she struck their smokes wrathfully to the ground. One student made a grab at her bonnet, but was unable to detach...
Before evening a telephone message was sent to Group Commander Stampfer (French) at Mont Notre Dame to detach a battery of 305 mm. or twelve-inch rifles on Batignolles railway carriages and send them north to Vailley where they were to set up and fire on the map coordinates 47-25 near Crepy...
...Ambassador at Moscow for transmission to the Chinese Government via the German Ambassador at Nanking the Soviet Government declared in part: ". . . While doing their utmost to prevent the crossing of the border by Soviet troops, the Soviet Government holds that the Chinese author ities must disarm the White guard detach ments and prevent all possible raids on Soviet territory by Chinese forces. Other wise the guilt of further complications caused by new raids will be entirely on the Nanking Government...
...Angeles, oldest of dirigibles (five years), made repeatedly successful tests over New Jersey and New York carrying a plane slung from a trapeze under the hull. The plane would detach itself, fly about, return to the trapeze. The dirigibles which Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is preparing to build for the Navy at Akron will be fitted not only to carry planes similarly but also to haul them into her hull. Values of the procedure are: in war, dirigibles might carry swift planes to scenes of action; after sortie the planes could return to the mother ship for fuel, ammunition, sleep...
...Macdonald: "Was it the idea of Locarno to detach Germany from any co-operation with Russia and set up a League bloc of states against Russia...