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...THOSE OPPOSING THE NATIONAL MOBILIZATION BILL ARE DOGS!" In charge of the police, as Minister of Home Affairs, is fiery Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu. When deputies demanded that the posters be taken down he stormed at these representatives of the Japanese people as though they were schoolboys meddling on a warship's bridge. However, after 73-year-old Mr. Isoo Abe, leader of the Social Mass Party, had had his jaw broken by ruffians and retired to bed, Admiral Suetsugu permitted the police to give deputies opposed to the bill some protection, and the more inflammatory posters were pasted over...
...been vainly trying to get for years. The Dictator of Fiume even issued a proclamation "declaring war on Italy," but delighted Italians knew it was his way of helping Rome tell President Wilson they were "powerless" to control this great Italian patriot. Eventually D'Annunzio, after an Italian warship had duly popped a few projectiles into Fiume, surrendered it to his native country and strutted home to be created a Prince, almost suffocated with adulation...
...Imperial Defense Committee's retort to the theory that battleships are outmoded-if the theory proves well founded, a government that builds no battleships will save money; if ill founded, the government will lose an empire. Meanwhile, other Navy and War Department officials pointed out that the only warship ever sunk by planes was the Pantry, whose limited artillery prevented it from being a satisfactory experimental guinea pig; that if England, Italy and Japan knew battleships were worthless, they would not be building them as fast as possible...
That elderly and respected stooge, Mr. Lin Sen, the Chinese President, went aboard a warship which took him 1,000 miles up the Yangtze to Chungking. Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui and Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung announced they were going to Hankow, with the War Ministry slated to establish itself just across the river at Wuchang. Obviously the main purpose of such announcements last week was to impress the world with a notion that whatever cities Japanese troops succeed in taking there will always be other cities containing part of the "Chinese Government." Generalissimo Chiang, although still Premier...
...world's most potent warship, Britain's famed Hood, was ordered to Balearic waters last week, ordered this week to Barcelona to investigate the sinking of a British tramp steamer by an airplane which the London Daily Herald insisted bore marks showing that its bomber pilot was Bruno Mussolini...