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...Japan's South China Army gave the French garrison at Dong Dang notice that they were moving in. It was not clear whether the Dong Dang garrison had heard about that afternoon's agreement, but in any case the agreement specified that Japanese troops should enter by the port of Haiphong, not by the China border. The French decided to resist. In a two-hour skirmish the French suffered about 100 casualties...
...garrison them, and granted immediate landing of a limited number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with the French defenders. Next morning Tokyo announced the surrender of the French, and the Japanese marched triumphantly on, while their Foreign Office virtuously announced that the clash "was entirely due to misunderstanding on the part of French Indo-China...
...Dong Pirnte failed to qualify in the sprint heat of the V. F. W. meet, but he may be back in the ten flat form he showed at Andover last year by this weekend. Don Donahue cleared the 45 yard high hurdles in six flat two weeks ago, and may do better if his start is faster, and if he keeps his right...
...program will include Handel's "Welcome as the Cheerful Light from Jeptha" and "Hallelejah, Amen"; "Good News from Heaven" and "Gavote and Muselk"; Beethoven's "Prometheus Overture"; Purcell's "Andante"; Dargomyzhski's "Chorus from Rogdana"; a French Carol, "Ding, Dong Merrily on High"; "The Birch in the Meadow," a Russian folk song; the American folk Song, "Come All ye Fain and Gentle Ladies"; and the English Carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas...
...Ding-Dong, The Witch is Dead, Harold Arlen's most appealing peal from The Wizard of Oz, gets by far its best record production (verse and all) from Tenor Ralph Blane and Franklyn Mark's band (Liberty Music Shop...