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...Chicago, Capt. Barnett W. Harris of the Zoological Society and Field Museum, exhibited as part of his equipment for a collecting trip in Borneo and Java, some rifle cartridges, invented by himself, to shoot animals unconscious instead of dead. The bullets contained a chemical which, upon entering an animal's blood stream, would anesthetize. It would presumably be easier to avoid than to hit the animal's vital spots. Collector Harris proposed to put gorillas and orang-outangs to sleep at long range, bring them home alive...
TIME "picks on" no man, county or state; has lately reported outrages at Herrin, Ill., Cicero, Ill., Chicago; also in Indiana, Ohio, Washington, Texas, Russia, China, Rumania, Java...
Statesmen Coolidge, Baldwin, Poincaré, Stresemann, even Mussolini, have invoked with respect to Mexico, Nicaragua, India, China, Tibet, Java and most of the earth's troubled lands, fear of all the spectre stands for. Asia is troubled by it, vaguely wondering if in loyalty to this presence perhaps lies union, strength and conquest...
...Whether the question at issue is the miners' strike in England, or an attack by the American Navy against the independent Republic of Nicaragua, or the shooting of people in Java and Sumatra, there is always made by the statesmen of Great Britain, or the United States, or the Netherlands, the same justification, the 'plots and intrigues' of the Bolshevist Government...
...Islamic-Nationalist riots, recently suppressed in Java (TIME, Nov. 22) burst out again last week in Sumatra. Dutch troops of the Netherlandic East Indies forces arrested 550 rioters at Siloengkang, shot 100. As usual the Dutch press, ignorantly or maliciously, referred to the malcontents as "Communists...