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...seat of Chinese air power-aviation being the sole arm in which China begins to have strength-was being transferred 1,400 miles west to Chengtu in almost totally inaccessible Szechwan Province. This move by Generalissimo Chiang resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic bases beyond the Ural Mountains too remote to be attacked by any European power. Szechwan Province, ringed by mountains and penetrated by no railway, will be developed by the Generalissimo, say his friends, into "a great, self-supporting and strategic unit." Larger than France, it is also more populous, and so distant from, Japan...
...gone, northward, but behind it came a tidal wave, to flood Osaka, Kobe and the carpet port of Sakai. It swept over a leper hospital and drowned 200, over an insane asylum and drowned 50. It tossed the 4,000-ton Batavia Maru onto a wharf, jammed the Ural Maru up a stone-curbed canal and drove the Zuiho Maru into the Customs House. As Osaka citizens fled past the Iron Works toward higher ground, the pursuing water tried to drown the red-hot blast furnaces. The explosion killed a score, injured...
...developed a palatable blend of apple and cherry which is grown in Siberia, apricots that bloom on snow-covered trees just south of the Arctic Circle, a fruitless lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract when pressed, frost-resisting grapes that flourish in Moscow and the Ural uplands. Undoubtedly he has produced fruits that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with electricity the seeds of apples, watermelons, almonds, squash, plums. Oranges and grapefruit developed by him are grown in the "Soviet Florida...
...Tavatui on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains, 1,000 mi. east of little Fraser, the station master decided it was all right to switch a freight train on to the through track, if he closed the semaphore signal. In the opposite direction a local passenger train roared into view. The engineer in the cab ran through the semaphore, head on into the freight train. Result: 33 dead, 68 injured. Last week in nearby Sverdlovsk a Red Court sentenced engineer and station master to be shot dead. Five others of the train and station crews got prison terms...
...might well be expected to defeat Franklin Delano Roosevelt for reelection. Josef Stalin comes up for re-election next month as General Secretary of the Communist Party-the post which makes him Dictator. Josef Stalin decreed last week special and extraordinary privileges for all Soviet citizens east of the Ural Mountains-Russia's "Rockies." The pay of Red soldiers assigned to the favored area will be upped 50%, that of their officers 20%. The wages of office and factory workers east of the Urals will be raised from 10% to 30% by their all-potent employer, the State. Fishermen...