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...Yangtze trouble is the Iping. Scuddling down the river's rapids, she bumped herself on a rock, limped on, ran a gauntlet of Communist fire, escaped toward Ichang. Next day "friendly" Government artillery suddenly surprised the Iping with shrapnel, desperately wounded two Chinese passengers, put a slug in the leg of Leo Bradley, able seaman U. S. N. Promptly other U. S. Naval guards on the Iping got her guns into action, silenced the Chinese battery with an Imperialist cannonade...
...cable of wire and tin cans. Guards, who had lain in wait for the break for three weeks, flashed floodlights, opened fire with machine guns as the last man swung down the cable. Paralyzed with fear, he hung for a moment in the glare before being swept off, slug-riddled. His two companions were also killed. When the other inmates heard the bursts of fire, they united in one great long groan...
...story: Negro Bray, returning home, surprised his wife and her friend Albert Roberts. Bray drew a revolver and emptied it around the room. Roberts fell stone dead, a bullet through the heart; a slug tore through Mrs. Bray's arm. Bray fled...
...history: roustabout on Lisbon docks, sailor, medaled hero. Once he saved eight persons in a fire at sea, was scarred himself. As a ring fighter he is inexperienced. Bertys Perry, his French-American manager, was obliged to teach him not to slug, how to uppercut. Last week he was preparing to sail for the U. S. He wants a Labor Day bout with that Italian Brobdingnagian, Primo Camera (height 6 ft. 6 1/2 in.; weight...
...drew a .38 calibre revolver; there were four reports. As the dentist fled into his office, one slug tore through his coat tail. The 65-year-old publisher was struck down, riddled three times, the last shot tearing into him as he lay on the ground...