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...Japanese "grand push," launched ten weeks ago to capture the Chinese "Hindenburg Line" and the strategic Lung-hai Railway, was still stalled last week on the banks of the Grand Canal in southern Shantung Province, 35 miles northeast of Suchow. Fast-striking Chinese guerilla units, employing shifting flank attacks, last week struck at all sides of the Japanese forces, spread out in a rough quadrangle in the Shantung area. Towns were taken, then recaptured as neither side made an effort to hold positions for long. Chinese guerillas tore up sections along 40 miles of the Tientsin-Pukow railway...
...make with "China's Hindenburg Line." This is not a closely coordinated system of defenses like the French Maginot Line, but over a period of years the Chinese have built important numbers of cement pillbox forts in a sausage-shaped area. This is traversed by the curiously named Lung-hai Railway, so called because it starts from the sea at Haichow and penetrates far inland toward Lung mountain in Kansu, forming today the sole rail link down which Soviet munitions are brought to aid China. Chinese troops held towns far on the other side of the Hindenburg Line...
...inspection of the lung bones, and the skull we can determine age pretty accurately," Woodbury said, adding that he had averaged together the age indications on each skeleton to get the final result. The victims, now identified as a Mrs. Golden and her two children, were 39, 14, and 11 years old at the time the murder is believed to have been committed, in 1931. Woodbury estimated the ages as 43, 14, and 12, which narrowed authorities' search through missing persons bureaus down considerably...
...hurt in the crash, a chief petty officer (Pat O'Brien) directs the lowering of a roomy rescue bell which fastens over the hatch, permits a rescue to be conducted in comfort and style. No cineminventions, both the rescue bell and the escape lung are in service in the submarine division of the Navy, have been developed since the S-4 and S-51 disasters. For the absorbing technical accuracy of the film, credit goes to Navy-minded Director Lloyd Bacon, son of the late Actor Frank Bacon (Lightnin'). Director Bacon joined the Navy at the start...
...fourth night of the show Steer Rider Walter Cravens, one of the best on the circuit, was thrown and trampled on: died next day of a punctured lung...