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...last week, what the Japanese Army had envisaged as a cheap, comparatively easy three-month romp through the northern provinces had dragged out to a year of costly, still undeclared war, with the end nowhere in sight. Japan has overrun an area twice as large as France and Germany (see map, p. 15), has captured eight provincial capitals, and has extended her campaign through twelve provinces of North and Central China. All of China's main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken...
Today the India Office is afraid to let Their Majesties go to New Delhi even for a visit, let alone a Durbar. The princes are afraid that if they join the All-India Federation their states will be overrun with radical Gandhi Congressmen and preachers of sedition, with or without violence. The Indian National Congress, which opposes Federation tooth & nail, is afraid that if the native states are permitted to come in under the Constitution the entire All-India Federation will be a setup so rigid that it may take generations to overthrow the Rajas, Maharajas and Nawabs...
Most influential among Belgian Catholic editors, Victor Jourdain was stunned by the tragic fallacy of his policy of pacifism when Belgium was overrun. Soured, the old man vowed never to give the Germans the satisfaction of a silent opposition. He built a trapdoor to his attic, began translating smuggled copies of London papers. Through an intermediary who used a false name, Victor Jourdain supplied money to build up a staff of patriotic priests and laymen for gathering articles and distributing 20,000 copies of Free Belgium, taunting the German occupants and preaching patriotic passive resistance. The stories, written on thin...
...Firefly" Jeanette MacDonald dances, sings, impersonates a night-spot entertainer, and incidentally rescues her native Spain from the ravages of the rapacious Emperor Napoleon of France by her Mata Hari sleuthing for the local military intelligence. Spain, as all the world knows, was overrun by Napoleon's armies, and subsequently rescued, amid much tumult and shouting and bombs bursting in air, by the iron Duke of Wellington. Many a time have we seen the good duke's armies cavorting on the silver screen, and never to such advantage as in "The Firefly." We feel, however, as one whose ancestors fought...
...herds and their household possessions, betook themselves northward across the Orange and Vaal Rivers into the then unknown region of the Transvaal. It was a perilous undertaking, for besides the barrier range of mountains, the rivers across the way, the high plateau of the Transvaal itself was lion-infested, overrun by the warlike Zulu and Kaffir tribes. Moving in great wagon trains for safety's sake and driving their cattle before them, the emigrants swarmed in-in such numbers that by 1852 more than 40,000 voortrekkers had made the journey, resettled themselves on the new lands...