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Battles, riots and bloodshed broke through the tense surface of Indian affairs last week to show the world what depths the non-violent campaign of St. Gandhi for Indian independence is stirring (TIME, Jan. 6). At Karachi, busy modern seaport on the Arabian Sea, a mob of 10,000, yelling, waving flags, throwing stones, swept down on the courthouse where six non-violent followers of Mahatma Gandhi were on trial for violating the British salt laws. British police rifles fired volleys point-blank into the crowd before the yelling, rushing wave of rioters dispersed. One native was killed, 33 were...
...ordinary traveler strike off alone into China's bandit-infested hinterlands; and all travelers know that the only well-guarded railways in China proper are the short line connecting Nanking, the new capital, with the seaport of Shanghai, and the slightly longer one connecting Peiping (formerly Peking) with the seaport of Tientsin...
...this was well liked three years ago. As a photograph of a stage musical comedy, it is handicapped by the fact that its great tunes-"Hallelujah" and "Sometimes I'm Happy"-are just old enough to be stale. Its story, stale to begin with, is laid in a seaport town populated by chorus girls who are always ready to swing into a routine, and by numerous chorus-boy sailors named Smith. Jack Oakie's talents are subdued by his struggles with the dialog. A girl named Polly Walker, new to films, who plays opposite him, has not enough...
...Director, and four Health Inspectors stoutly praised the Slasher. All were arrested, will be tried for "criminal incompetence," probed to see if they have taken bribes from shrewd Cobbler Kolesnikov. Stars & Stripes. Raucous foghorns and tooting whistles dinned a welcome last week across the harbor of Novorossiisk, bustling Black Seaport. Slowly in steamed the little S. S. Exford, flying stars, stripes. Excited Soviet stevedores cheered. Now there would be more work, plenty of tchervontzi (banknotes, 1 tchz. = $5.13) to earn. The little Exford, owned by Manhattan's pioneering American Export Line, hove into Novorossiisk as the first ship...
...story. "Considering his position as Prime Minister of Great Britain," thundered Father Dowd of Ottawa's St. Theresa's Church, "the words were an insult to about half the people of Canada, who adhere to the Roman Catholic Church." Montreal. Largest of Dominion cities, fifth most important seaport in the world, terminal headquarters of both the Dominion's great railway systems (Canadian National, Canadian Pacific), and busy mistress of nearly 3,000 factories, great Montreal* staged a mighty welcome...