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...notes before the proprietor. The proprietor called for the girl's mother. Girl and mother burst into tears. The foreigner was watching the touching scene for some time and then ordered 13 other girls in the house and all the other employes to assemble . . . and gave them 5 yen each...
...Hock sent a cable home and got 2,000 yen on the day he sailed for the U. S. Although young, Mr. Hock has a wife and children in Amsterdam where he manages a newspaper. If he had been unmarried, he would have taken her to his country, Mr. Hock told the interpreter...
...tumbled the Chinese mud houses by tens of thousands, killed more than 3,000 Chinese, injured nearly 10,000. Estimated damage: 10,000,000 yen ($2,860,000). But since the few Japanese live in light wooden houses that shake without falling, scarcely a Japanese was hurt. More important, Formosa's earthquake left practically untouched Japan's oil fields and naval fortifications. Relief workers who swarmed over the scene reported that an astonishing number of Formosans had gone mad. The head-hunting "Green Savages" of Formosa, who had danced to their gods just before the quake struck, looked...
...steel ribbons into furthest Asia which they had built, the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week, to the shame of Soviet Russia, her rights over the C. E. R. were sold, or rather yielded to Manchukuo by Joseph Stalin for the insignificant sum of 140,000,000 Japanese paper yen ($39,200,000), plus an allowance of 30,000,000 yen ($8,400,000) to pay off Soviet railwaymen who now lose their jobs to Japanese and Manchukuans...
Even the nimble-witted money changers admitted that it was the worst day since the dollar was devalued a year ago. A frenzied scramble sent the dollar soaring in terms of francs, guilders, sterling, yen, and at one time it sold nearly 3? above the gold franc parity. The pound sank to $4.83½, lowest price since November 1933. Bids for gold bloc currencies practically vanished. Wild flew reports that trade contracts were being canceled right & left, and for several hours the whole foreign exchange market was completely demoralized...