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...every summer on the wide grasslands of Xanadu or Shangtu a few hundred miles north of Peking, which he enlarged and made his Capital. Last week this same region of "Xanadu" was news again. Its trading post Dolonnor ("Seven Lakes") had been captured by the "Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, July 24). Last week the great voice of War Lord Feng rumbled out of his barrel chest: "I command 100,000 soldiers! So long as there is one breath in my body I will lead these hungry soldiers to recapture Manchuria and Jehol from Japan...
...life among the Malay pearl divers, made by Ward Wing and his wife. Lori Bara, sister of Theda Bara. When they went to Samarang, the Wings were fortunate enough to find, first of all, a native girl too poor to have her teeth covered with gold. She was Sai-Yu, a 17-year-old dancer in a Malay theatre. Her father did not want her to act in cinema but since she was under contract to the local theatre, his objections made no difference. They discovered also a handsome young native named Ahmang, part Portuguese, part Dyak...
...sente une conception infiniment plus vaste-d'espoir et les voeux du monde entier. . . . Messieurs les délégués, je vous tend la main et de tout man coeur j'espère que vos efforts aboutiront à un heureux résultat yu'attendent avec impatience les peuples du monde...
...Route Army from its trek north to take over the war against Japan. At the same time Cantonese General Chen Chi-tang accepted a long-standing order from Chiang Kai-shek to suppress bandits in five southeastern provinces. Canton also withdrew its support of ''Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, strutting in Chahar Province. And last week 47 Chinese Generals signed a circular telegram supporting the truce and repudiating General Feng...
...Nazis, went on a counter fast. She thought he would end his fast because "he cannot let me die." On the third day another disciple told her she was making Gandhi worry, persuaded her to take a glass of milk and two oranges. A Buddhist monk. Tan Yu-shan, began a sympathy "fast unto death...