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...Majestic and Leviathan-which belonged to the Hamburg American Line until seized by the Allies after and during the War. But the French Line now has under construction a ship designed to be bigger than the Leviathan or Majestic, faster than the Bremen, and German hearts are sore that Frenchmen are about to worst them. The supership, as yet nameless, is being built with utmost secrecy as to exact details, in the largest French shipyards, Societé Anonyme des Chantiers et Ateliers de St. Nazaire, which had to be enlarged for the purpose by demolishing an entire block of buildings...
...flight from Paris to Saigon, Cochin-China, last week, scrambled to undo safety belts, climbed over their cockpit's edge and stepped, parachutes unfolding, into the black darkness over the mountains near Moulmein, Burma. The old Moulmein pagoda heard the shriek of wind against wires as the Frenchmen's plane roared to the ground with no one in control. The plane was demolished, mail was lost, Rossi fractured his pelvic bone, the hopes of Le Brix to outdo ''Doudou" Costes, who preëmpted the kudos of their 1928 world flight and thereby created a personal...
...French Delegation at London, with his great and famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in second place, and Minister of Marine Georges Leygues, whose whiskers seem as wide as the seas themselves, in third. Though M. Briand is nothing if not conciliatory, he shares with M. Tardieu and most Frenchmen a shrewd wish to link the U. S. in disarmament with the League...
...Moulin Rouge in Paris, police quelled a riot of Frenchmen incensed at the discovery that they had paid good francs to see The Fox Movietone Follies? in English...
Musical: THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus score), BITTER SWEET, SONS O' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN...