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Several others, among them the prize of the Comite France-Amerique and the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize, take the form of bronze, silver, and gold medals. The prizes are awarded over an unusually diversified field of subjects which range from political science to drawing and painting...
...first time in Japanese Army history all garrison and division commanders were summoned to Tokyo last week for a conference at the Imperial War Office. Subject: discipline. To the distress of Japanese who thought that in discipline at least their army topped all others, War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi issued the following order at the conference...
...been blabbing what Army secrets General Hayashi did not say, sent Japan's garrison and division commanders away under a public cloud of suspicion. Still the darkest of current Japanese Army secrets remained the reason why General Nagata, Director of Military Affairs, was run through the chest by Army Swordsmanship Instructor Colonel Aizawa (TIME, Aug. 26), who sat in jail last week purse-lipped. In general Japan's scrappy little war machine suffers from chronic super-patriotism in the lower ranks, jampacked with zealots who imagine that their generals are too soft and that Japan's current...
...Canal. Other British war boats strengthened Gibraltar and Red Sea points. Fifty miles off Italy on the British island naval base of Malta orders from London to erect shelters against air bombs were excitedly obeyed. Some 1,000 troops were ordered to sail from England to bring the Malta garrison up to full strength. Even more ominously the aircraft carrier Furious was rushed full steam from Gibraltar to Malta with three squadrons of planes aboard. These drastic British fighting service moves-considering that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had resumed his soaking & sipping at Aix as though...
When Pai's train got near the Yungtingmen Gate, he began shooting, apparently to set off a pre-arranged uprising within the city. This idea fizzled. The Peiping garrison, properly warned, swarmed to the Outer Wall, shut and sandbagged the central gate and answered the attackers' fire. The train ground to a stop, began backing up, backed out into the night. Past midnight it came chugging back, this time spitting bullets from every window. The garrison, equipped now with trench mortars and machine guns, blazed away furiously. Nobody hit anything, except for one Chinese coolie who stepped fatally...