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Startling but not uninformed were comments on the war made on arriving at Victoria, B. C. last week by Journalist Jim Marshall, a survivor of the sunken U. S. S. Panay. Japanese with whom Mr. Marshall talked en route told him they are afraid their country will "crack" this spring, because it has so over-extended itself in China. "In my personal opinion Generalissimo and Mrs. Chiang are all washed up as a dominant influence in Central China," said Mr. Marshall, adding with reference to Japanese overextension: "If the Japanese take Hankow, I am afraid that both China and Japan...
...sported baskets of flowers and an icy cake decorated with sugar baseball bats & balls, and about 100 baseball men milled noisily about sipping Scotch & soda. Presently they began to munch chicken patties, crab cutlets, cakes, nuts and mints. Suddenly a tall, gaunt old fellow with bushy white eyebrows and sunken eyes strode in briskly. The guests promptly gave him a spontaneous yell of greeting. The old fellow was Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), manager, treasurer, president and co-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics. The occasion was his 75th birthday...
...virtual certainty that Japanese armies would soon sweep around south of Lake Tai, descend on him even if he could keep them from also sweeping around north of the lake and up the Yangtze River. Some 70 Japanese river gunboats were already pounding away at the Chinese boom of sunken junks which was flung across the Yangtze to block it weeks ago and defended by the Kianyin forts. The second line of Chinese defense ran last week from these forts to Wusih. Much of the Hindenburg Line had not yet given way when Generalissimo Chiang abruptly decided that his Government...
...nothing more than a large fish-maybe a catfish." He had a razor-edged, eight-foot harpoon prepared. In Washington, the Bureau of Fisheries said it might be an alligator gar, which reputedly grows, sometimes, to be 20 ft. long. Other guesses: water-logged tree trunk, sunken barge, eruption of subterranean gases throwing up leaf accumulation, devil fish, sturgeon, or Old Blue, the legendary giant catfish of the Mississippi who every so often gets stuck in a canal lock or nudges in the bottom of a barge. As Diver Brown prepared for his first descent, Newport called an unofficial holiday...
...Connellsville, Pa., State Police discovered that John Lindley Collins, 39, had stumbled into a sunken grave, smothered to death when he grabbed a 300-lb. tombstone which toppled on to his chest...