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...reimbursed his parent. The Wings' camera shows Ahmang and Sai-Yu dog-paddling about the bottom of the ocean wearing handkerchiefs around their middles and picking oysters. They encounter surprisingly mild adventures when stranded on a cannibal island. The Wings also discovered a chipper little urchin called Ko-Hai. Ko-Hai was foolish enough (in Lori Bara's little story) to be bitten to death by a shark. After his funeral, Ahmang avenges this mishap by killing the shark with a knife. Samarang is a silent picture, with musical accompaniment. It is pleasing scenically and photographically...
Meanwhile the truce was far from stopping gunfire in China. No sooner did the terms leak out than Chinese war lords were snapping at each other like angry clogs. At Hsuanhuafu, on the Peiping-Kalgan Railway, General Feng Chan-hai (of the "Big Sword" volunteers), leading his Japan-battered troops down to Peiping, met General Fang Chen-wu and his private army going up to Kalgan. The two forces clashed. General Fang hoping to seize control of North China. Meantime the able Cantonese 19th Route Army was still making its way slowly north with the rumors gaining daily strength that...
Because several news stories of the year loomed so large, the lists were more alike than usual. All three services named the Bonus Army's invasion of Washington, the Democratic landslide, the Sino-Japanese struggle (particularly the battle of Shang-hai), the collapse of the Insull and Kreuger properties, the Massie case in Honolulu...
Changchun Tomahawking. Dining heavily in the Yueh Hai Chung, Changchun's best Chinese hotel, and guarded by Japanese police, sat wealthy Li Yih-sun, smartest political wire-puller in Manchukuo. famed for pulling Heilungkiang Province out from under Governor Chen Shieh-yuan who was ''kicked upstairs" to the rank of Privy Councilor...
...182The Chinese Eastern Railway, vital link in the Trans-Siberian route between China and Europe, was cut last week 65 miles south of Harbin, Manchuria by 3,000 Chinese soldiers under General Li Hai-tsing. Ripping up the railway tracks, tearing down telegraph wires the Chinese waited until a train from Harbin chuffed into their clutches. They looted and dispersed before Japanese troops rushed on the scene. Other Chinese troops defied Japanese authority in Manchuria by setting three minor railway stations afire and gutting the city of Suifenho (reported loss...