Word: mausers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more Chinese names which look almost as interchangeable as rifle parts (see col. 1) and both of which were in the news last week are Wang Ching-wei and Wang Chung-hui. Their owners would make as ill-fitting an interchange as the triggers of a crossbow and a Mauser. Wang Chung-hui is a patriot, Wang Ching-wei a traitor. Patriot Wang is naive, legalistic, bureaucratic, in office (Foreign Minister). Traitor Wang is sophisticated, old-style, political, out of office (onetime Premier, waiting to become Japan's super-puppet...
...indulged his habit of doing something so fantastic that today only Adolf Hitler does it: he caused the heads of Communists to be actually chopped off and "roll in the sand." Old Chang's executioner with his great broad sword, and sometimes Old Chang with his gold-plated Mauser pistol, killed many more Reds than ever the Nazis have. He also, on his own responsibility as no gentleman and a War Lord, burst open Soviet Embassy offices at Peiping and filled the world for weeks with evidence of its machinations which Communists loudly called "forged." It seemed last week...
First they shot and killed the Chinese wireless operator as he slept in his bunk. Next Captain Vikhmann and the first mate's wife were murdered in his bed. Aroused by the shots, Mate Azariev rushed up from below decks, crumpled beneath a hail of Mauser bullets. To show precisely where everyone stood, Captain Taudien & friends then shot six unresisting members of the Chinese crew, two of whom were killed as they slept...
...police sabres and bullets, was a fat young man named Petrus Kalemen, later said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO. The weapon with which the murders were committed was a huge ungainly Mauser automatic pistol of the latest type which sprays 20 shots like a machine gun. In his pockets Kalemen also carried a Walther pistol, a hand grenade, and 150 loose cartridges. He did not need them. With the Mauser he was able To kill: Alexander of Jugoslavia Foreign Minister Louis Barthou...
...Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, Scot Willis McPhee left his house bright & early one morning bent on swapping his rusty 40.40 rifle for what he could get. Dark & late that night Scot Willis McPhee returned with a Mauser rifle, an eight-day clock, a pair of rubber boots, a yellow cat, a goat great with...