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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annam, the only empire in French Asia, lies facing the China Sea between the French protectorates of Cochin China and Tonking. With an area as large as Kentucky's and a population twice as great, Annam exports prime rice & pepper, fair tea, trinkets. Beyond a doubt her young Emperor would have preferred to remain in Paris and he almost had a chance to stay on. The August Messenger from the Regent of Annam who set out last spring to recall His Majesty traveled by the brand new French luxury liner Georges Phillipar. When she burned up and sank...
...Fallodon, near the Scottish border, Lord Grey has established two duck sanctuaries, in & about two small ponds surrounded by high fox-proof fences. There he feeds his ducks twice a day, many of them eating from his hand. All are wild ducks, free to come & go as they please, but at Fallodon they have become tame. There are some 200 ducks of 20-odd species. Says Frank Michler Chapman, curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, in an introduction to Lord Grey's article...
...President Wilson only interfered twice with military operations while I was Chief of Staff and both times he was wrong. The first of these was the Siberian Expedition; the other sending troops to northern Russia. ... I opposed at all times the slightest diversion of our troops [from France]. . . . [the result was] the complete failure of these expeditions to accomplish anything...
...Topeka. The Governor's Topeka speech drew a crowd estimated at twice the size of the one that turned out last month to hear Charles Curtis accept the Vice-Presidential nomination in his hometown. Speaker Garner joined his teammate at the State Capitol. Said he: "I've come here to show you that I wear neither horns nor hoofs though I come from Texas...
Gentle, spindly Auguste Piccard has twice explored his beloved stratosphere ten miles above Earth-highest man has ever gone. Last week a man who wears a metal band to support his head because his neck was broken flying in the War nearly intruded upon frail Professor Piccard's rarefied kingdom. In a specially lightened Bull Pup plane powered with a 550-h. p. Pegasus motor. Chief Test Pilot Cyril Unwins of Britain's Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., soared 45,000 ft.- more than eight miles above the Severn Valley. Classified as an "interceptor" in the Royal Air Force...