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Kiangsi-"West of the (Yangtze) River"-lies in Southeastern China, at the centre of the triangle formed by Shanghai, Hankow, Canton. With neighboring Hunan it forms a natural corridor of parallel rivers and ridges from Central to Southern and Southwestern China. Chinese colonists, early British explorers like Macartney in 1793 and Amherst in 1816, the wildfire Nationalist Armies in 1926-27, the trunk line of the Peking-Hankow-Canton railway-all chose the corridor for their routes. And so, last week, did the Japanese Army...
...Coastal mosquitoes are few, but those in the interior bad. Oldtimers swear you can't tell mosquitoes in the interior from ducks, unless you know a lot about ducks. >In southeastern Alaska within five miles of tidewater, enough timber can be cut annually to supply one-quarter of U. S. newsprint needs, in perpetuity, without denting the forests...
...small, tasty shrimps of southeastern Alaska, the herring and shellfish industries are underdeveloped. Yukon mink bring the highest world prices, but could have production expanded 100 times without sinking the world price. Petroleum resources have not even been tapped...
...Balkan Sworl. South of the Carpathians, Germany and her opponents face another geography. Four centuries ago when the Turk was rampant in southeastern Europe, he scared the life out of Christendom by pushing northwest, up the few (Continued on p. 35) narrow lowland channels through the sworling mountains of the Balkans to the Hungarian Plain and the walls of Vienna itself. In World War I, the Allies hoped to emulate the Turk but failed at the start in failing to force the Dardanelles. Lacking support from British and French troops, the Serbians and Rumanians found themselves penned up between...
...years physicians have sought a cure for trachoma, a painful virus disease which furrows the eyelids, burns out the vision of thousands of peasants in Asia, Southeastern Europe, South America. At the Berkeley, Calif, meeting of the Sixth Pacific Science Congress, Dr. Phillips Thygeson, of Manhattan's famed Presbyterian Hospital, announced that sulfanilamide was an effective treatment for trachoma. When Dr. Thygeson fed Sulfanilamide tablets to two large groups of patients, he "obtained healing or striking improvement in a high proportion of cases." In those cases which were far advanced, however, Sulfanilamide did not restore vision...