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...Young Editor Cowles was looking through a copy of The First World War, a photographic history edited by Laurence Stallings and just published by Simon & Schuster (TIME, July 31). It showed recruits in camp, soldiers in battle, soldiers wounded, maimed, dead; crowds at home, prisoners being executed, troop ships sinking. Gardner Cowles, who had been too young to go to War, was awestruck. Said he: "What would you think of this as a Sunday feature?" Manager Martin, who had been in the War, blinked through his spectacles, said "I think it would be great...
...Lost Patrol (RKO) is an account of what happens to twelve members of a British cavalry troop in Mesopotamia in 1915. Arabs, firing from ambush, kill the troop's captain. The rest reach an oasis. The first night, Arabs shoot a sentry, steal the horses. The next morning a cockney soldier climbs a palm tree to get a look at the enemy. He topples down with a bullet in his heart. The sergeant (Victor McLaglen) draws lots, sends two of his men to scout for help. They come back dead, strapped to the backs of horses. A rescue plane...
Wildly cheered by the patriotic populace of Modane near the Franco-Italian frontier, 1,200 French soldiers climbed aboard a troop train. Half an hour later 535 were dead and 243 injured in "the worst train wreck in history.'' This grim fact which has been a military secret since it occurred in 1917, was released by the French Government last week. The release came apropos of an investigation into the recent wreck at Lagny in which 200 people died (TIME, Jan. 1) after which the President of the Republic asked mourning Frenchmen not to light the candles...
...Nanking troop trains continued to rush soldiers down to the Fukien front, but Generalissimo Chiang did not follow them. He developed a fresh interest in his anti-Communist campaign in Kiangsi. Meanwhile the Fukien rebels continued to demand that both Generalissimo Chiang and Nanking Premier Wang Ching-wei resign. Wang and Chiang reacted in a way which showed that Fukien and its famed 19th Route Army are gaining prestige. Said the Premier: "It is impossible for the Government to dispense with Generalissimo Chiang's services at the present juncture of the anti-Communist campaign, but if the people...
...money man. Cross current of intrigue and personal gossip further estranged T. V. and Chiang. Last week Mr. Soong was in effect gloating on the sidelines as Generalissimo Chiang found himself forced to meet the challenge of Fukien and Eugene Chen. Overnight seven steamers were filled with picked troops and dispatched to attack the rebels by sea. Martial law was declared in Shanghai's Chinese quarter. Troop trains roared off to the Fukien land front. From Nanking the Generalissimo sent up thun dering squadrons of airplanes which showered Fukien with bombs and with leaflets reading...