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...China by Marshal (now President) Chiang Kai-shek was completed almost a year ago (TIME, June 25), but last week a big and a little piece of bad news made it seem that Mr. Chiang must lay down his presidential fountain pen, gird on his old sword and Mauser pistol, and sally forth from Nanking to conquer all over again two great provinces. Shantung and Hunan...
Five minutes passed, ten-suddenly it seemed to the befuddled generals that the room was full of soldiers, ugly grinning fellows with leveled bayonets. Tipsily "Ludendorf" Yang squinted, then whipped out his Mauser pistol-a second too late. The soldiers had already shot and bayonetted General Chang Yin-huai and before General Yang could fire he too, "The "Ludendorff" was foully murdered...
...coat collar and seat of trousers he hurled him sprawling into a Kurfürsten-Damm gutter, returned to Gretchen. Half an hour later some 30 taxis teeming with tuxedoed crooks drew up outside the Hamburger convention. Though the Journeymen flung chairs, mightfully defending themselves, the crooks opened with Mauser pistols, shot one Hamburger dead, wounded seven...
...Dictator only 31 years old, whom elder statesmen held uneasily and attentively in mind last week. One enters, climbs a neat, unvarnished stair, and is stopped by two rugged guards in black-braided baggy white trousers, red fezzes, pirate sashes. Their pay is $12 a month. Firearms are by Mauser and Anfaldo. These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania...
...sultry August afternoon, the denizens of Mexico City were startled by the clatter of horses and the tramp, tramp, tramp of feet. With curious eyes, they watched detachments of police, armed with shining Mauser rifles, surround Congressional Hall...