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...last December. Fortnight ago Finance Minister H. H. Rung announced that a Belgian firm had agreed to a $100,000,000 loan and that Russia may help soon with a "huge" one. Japan, on the other hand, has not been able to wring a single yen from her busy but broke allies, Germany and Italy...
Next day War Minister Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki stood up before a Parliament which just a few hours before the explosion had been told to shoot the Japanese budget skyhigh, appropriating 4,600,000,000 yen (about $1,242,000,000) for war. Expensive as the accident had been, said General Itagaki, it would "not interfere in any way . . . with the sacred war in China." Neither did the mysterious fire in December which razed an aviation training station at Yonago (cost: 150,000 yen) ; or, later, the explosion and fire which wrecked an Army powder factory at Maebashi...
...repair their one night's damage the Japanese engineers send out 3,100 Ibs. of steel rails, 240 spikes and 28 poles. Total cost: 4,780 yen. Thus, if the Paoting farmers keep up their twice-a-week raids, they will cost the Japanese half a million yen a year. If 1,000 villages do the same, Japan will have to increase her army budget half a billion yen a year, reason the guerrillas. Therefore, 2,000 organizers have recently been sent out to carry on concerted rail-raiding parties...
...story concerns the difficulties encountered by one Harry Quill, a rug salesman with a yen for old time vaudeville, in putting on the annual show for his lodge. After assembling a collection of moth-eaten variety artists, one-time headliners but now hovering on the brink of the Borsch circuit, Quill encounters opposition in the form of Tropp, chancellor of the Lodge, who calls the whole thing off because Quill won't let Mrs. Tropp sing three Schubert Songs to infuse tone into the entertainment. But the villain is foiled, and by the use of false telephone calls...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Mary Felecia ran out on a busy intersection, embraced Patrolman John Rom, cried, "I love you," embarrassed Patrolman Rom, tied up traffic. Said she at the police station: "When I see a man in uniform I just get the yen to hug and kiss...