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...could to hurl himself & bomb against the Japanese. Not many "human bombs" reached their mark. Most blew up and burned up as the heroic Chinese ran into the leaden teeth of Japanese machine gun fire. Not in Shanghai but in London an English lay preacher started a movement to enlist Occidentals willing to go to Shanghai and heroically interpose themselves between the fighting Orientals until enough Occidentals had been killed to produce peace. His Majesty King George has decorated for valor on the Western Front an officer who was promoted until he became Brigadier-General Frank Percy Crozier, retired.* Last...
...Enlist to Avoid Starvation...
...been said that soldiers enlist in the Chinese army because it is the surest way for the lower class man to avoid starvation. When China was declared a republic in 1912 under Sun Yat Sen, a civil war began which has not yet been terminated. Hope was expressed that a common fee in the person of Japan would cause the hostile factions to unite, but local rivalries which make any concentrated action impossible still exist. Despite the fact that China has been practically without one central government for years, taxes are collected regularly, police duty is performed...
...Harvard Grenfell Committee is opening its third annual campaign today in collaboration with the Mission Committee of Phillips Brooks House to raise a fund of $3000 for the Labrador Mission of Sir Wilfred Grenfell and to enlist students for summer work at the mission...
...nuclous for running a membership drive next week. The organization was started about a week before the mid-year examinations, stimulated by a letter of authorization from Governor Murray himself. The officers of the Club are W. C. Loring '35 and H. R. Chalko '35, and they propose to enlist 50 men to spread abroad propaganda for their favorite presidential candidate, before starting on the campaign throughout the University. A mass meeting will be held sometime during the next week...