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...Catalonia is concentrating on efforts to fight for the Republic!" That this was no idle bombast was evident when 6,000 Catalonians under debonair Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti marched to the relief of Madrid. Also fighting with the beleaguered Red militia, who for the first time were reported using poison gas, was a stalwart pro-Red column of volunteers, made up of Russians, Italians, French, Germans and Poles. From among Madrid's refugee-swollen population of 1,500,000, there were last week more than 50,000 actively defending the capital. General Franco's White Army totaled not more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Red Stand | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Cottenham's cuff, the Phantom III carried him "stealing quietly uphill. . . . I found myself incoherently delighted like a child. . . . Attempting to avoid nothing, in fact, choosing if anything, the worst pieces of surface, I sailed down the middle of Bishop's Avenue hating the whole performance like poison, for I loathe so to treat a car . . . potholes a foot deep are everywhere. . . . Cars with orthodox springing, even of the best kind, shake the teeth in one's head as they pass over Bishop's Avenue. . . . Ghastly thuds sounded beneath the car as the road wheels rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swank | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...have given coppers, bankers silver bars, and so much money was collected for the Birthday Airplane Fund that the Government last week expected to be able to buy an additional 50 war planes. Unconfirmed was an exuberant Nanking rumor that "Chiang has secretly erected the world's largest poison gas factory and the Japanese know it!" Solid Backing. The Congress of the Knomintane, had been scheduled to meet Nov. 12 in Nanking to adopt a new Constitution for China. Last month this date was abruptly postponed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang Dares | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...Suicides and murders by means of potassium cyanide in Japan are increasing. Chemist Matsutaro Nishida of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Board announced discovery of a substance which, if mixed with the poison, would emit an odor so foul that it would deter would-be suicides from drinking it, warn victims of murder-plotters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vales & Swales | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...department of military science should concentrate on only the major subjects of its present course and teach these fundamentals as thoroughly and as completely as possible. Every effort should be made to keep the course right up to date in the latest methods of warfare. Poison gas protection with reference to big cities should be carefully studied, defense agaisnt aerial attack and long range guns should also be included, as well as the military administration of hygienic measures against mass bacterial infection. Military Science should be studied with the future in view instead of the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEHIND THE FRONT | 11/5/1936 | See Source »

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