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...blown into the air like a jack-in-the-box, his feet flung wide. Consul General Mural's face was unrecognizable with blood and torn flesh. Admiral Nomura's eye was blown out, General Shirakawa lost all his teeth. General Uyeda lost three toes. Kim Fung-kee, the Korean bomb-thrower, was beaten unconscious by Japanese soldiers. One W. S. Hibbard, a U. S. citizen, protested the detention of two Chinese photographers, was rushed to a police station as a suspect and questioned for hours...
...over there to Tokio and flatten them all out just like that", said Wing Kee, expert Cantabridgian laundryman in an interview yesterday, punctuating his remarks by tearing buttons off a shirt he was operating upon; one button for a comma, two for a period...
...especially welcome.*Long-coated, silk-trousered members of the Shanghai Gold Stock Exchange on Kiukiang Road bought silver by the simple method of selling gold. How desperate is China's state is well illustrated by the ugly rumors heard in Singapore concerning the affairs of Tan Kah Kee, great rubber, pineapple, biscuit and brick tycoon, patron of Amoy University. Once a coolie, he became a multimillionaire, is now thought to be heavily in debt, frantically trying to incorporate his private affairs...
...best characterizations were done by E. Alyn Warren as Lo Sang Kee, the cultured and dignified old Chinaman and E. G. Robinson as the vulgar and blatant half caste, Charlie Young. Lewis Ayres makes an ornamental hero and Lupe Velez has her moments, but she has a tendency towards overacting and is a shade too kittenish for a demure Chinese doll. In short the excellent direction and casting save it from being just another one of those pictures...
...retain his seat Senator Allen must beat George McGill, Wichita Democrat, in November. All incumbent Congressmen seeking re-election were renominated. Governor Reed, Farm Board critic, good Allen friend, was defeated for Republican renomination by Frank ("Chief") Haucke (pronounced How-kee), 36, bachelor, famed Cornell footballer, A. E. F. sergeant, onetime Kansas commander of the American Legion...