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...Pronounced: Ex-eu’-pair-ee...
...people who did not forget were the Chinese, who live on the opposite side of the earth from Western civilization and celebrate upside-down holidays called National Humiliation Days. For ten years their most important National Humiliation Day has been Chiu I Pa. (pronounced Jo Ee Ba, translated Nine-One-Eight, meaning Sept. 18). On Sept. 18, 1931 a strip of Japanese-owned railway north of Mukden was blown up by a person or persons unknown. The Japanese Kwantung Army used the incident as an excuse to seize Manchuria in defiance of the Japanese Empire's treaty obligations...
...Chinese in occupied China last week celebrated Jo Ee Ba in the fashion the decade had set. A bomb wrecked the Japanese-operated radio station at Shanghai. Two Japanese merchants were shot in the International Settlement there. A bomb let go in Nanking's Central Railway Station, killing eight people. Four bombs commemorated Jo Ee Ba in Canton. The right-side-up nations on the other side of the earth, who so loved peace in 1931, no longer remember either Jo Ee Ba or peace...
Aland Islands: o'land Hanko: hang'koe Helsinki: hell'sink-ee...
Fiercest, most aloof of the mountain tribesmen are the tree-dwelling Ibilaos (pronounced Ee-beh-lah'-os), who run across the roof of the jungle on rattan vines like tightrope walkers. They have two chief occupations: 1) raising rice in small clearings of the jungle; 2) hunting heads. Not so prevalent as in the past, head-hunting is still a sport and a ritual among some savage Luzon tribes, where a young buck often cannot qualify for marriage until he has snicked off an enemy head. Head-hunting was one of the things the officials in Pantabangan (Nueva Ecija...