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...regulars and fired point blank into them. A valiant Vermonter went to port arms and demanded, according to the rules of sham battle, that a regular in an exposed position surrender. The regular made a pass with his bayonet and several rude remarks. The Vermonter got a nasty gash under the eye. Thereupon the Vermonters clubbed two regulars unconscious with their rifles before umpires could interfere. After that the umpires made a strict rule that opposing forces could not approach within 300 yards of each other...
...customary zeal in reminding Frenchmen of the glorious hazards of life in the French colonies, the Paris Illustration hastened to print photographs of the jungle tragedy, taken on the scene by the Belgian Congo's official photographer. L'Illustration's cover showed the great white gash the plane had cut in the forest. Inside was a meticulous chart showing the contours of the plane's debris and the exact positions to which the crash hurled the bodies of Governor and Mme Renard and their five companions...
...Toronto, night before they played Chicago, the Americans defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 2-to-1. Emms (Americans) received a gash on his head which required seven stitches...
...Japan, was moving Heaven and earth to hush the scandal. He almost succeeded. Seventy-two hours after the wrong turn no Japanese paper yet dared mention it. Then Sergeant Honda, closely guarded to prevent his trying to commit suicide, outwitted his keepers and slashed a four-inch gash in his throat. As he was rushed to hospital the story broke wide open. In Tokyo almost everyone expected the Home Minister, the Governor of the Prefecture and all officials however remotely concerned to resign...
...settle this thing." On second thought he decided to settle it on the spot, led with his right. While Overton flailed his arms wildly, his strapping opponent stood off, slugged fast & hard, soon dropped the Senator to his knees. Bellboys stepped in, carried the loser, bleeding from a gash over his right eye, to his room. Mourned Senator Overton : "I'm afraid that my punches were not very effective. My hands are pretty soft...