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...month warned China's millions that "almost inevitably" the Hwang Ho would writhe out of its new retaining dikes (many feet above the surrounding terrain) back to its old course (TIME, July 3). Last week the Hwang Ho broke its dikes in a dozen places in Shantung and Honan Provinces, flipped out tentative feelers of yellow water. Like a wandering serpent, one mile-wide flood flailed ponderously across Honan Province. Where the old and new beds of the Hwang Ho fork, roily water slupped around the cities of Chengchow, Lanfeng and Kaifeng, drowning 1,000 working peasants...
...Connor, c.f. 5 2 2 2 2 0 Robinson, 1b. 5 2 1 10 0 0 Baker, r.f. 5 1 2 1 1 1 Logan, l.f. 5 1 1 2 0 1 Andrew, 2b. 4 1 1 1 3 2 Blake, 2b. 3 1 0 1 1 0 Honan, p. 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals...
...holders of Parker Fellowships were re-appointed, for further study abroad: Eugene Feenberg, of Dallas, Texas, for study in Physics at Munich, and Gaines Liu, of Honan, China, for study in Zoology at Northeastern University, Mukden, China. Feenberg received his A.B. at the University of Texas in 1929. Liu received his A.M. at Harvard in 1931. Clifford Ladd Professor comes from the Department of Zoology at Johns Hopkins to hold a Parker Fellowship in Physiology at Harvard next fall...
...Pluribus Chinam. Chaos and disorder are "normalcy" to China. There was a trifle less chaos, a mite less disorder last week (although floods & famine continued and bubonic plague broke out in western Honan) as President Chiang Kai-shek succeeded in rallying all Chinese factions (except the Communists in China's central sore spot) to fight and resist the moral wrong of Japanese occupation of Manchuria...
Popular fears were thus calmed but President Chiang grimly proceeded with steps to move his General Staff (and possibly later his Civil Government) inland. Division after division of Chinese soldiers marched from Nanking northward into eastern Honan and therefore toward Manchuria, toward Japan. Was China going to fight Japan, going to try to Whampoa...