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Transforming Soldiers Field into a bull-fighting area early yesterday, an American Ferdinand the Bull wandered onto the Freshman football field and there engaged in a losing combat with two matadors from the Boston police department...
Certain that Britain would not tolerate Japanese military operations in the area around the strategic, highly-fortified British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, 100 miles below Canton, Chinese military heads decided not to fortify the city, left it defended by untrained provincial troops. Japanese commanders decided on the South China campaign only after Britain's capitulation at Munich convinced them that Britain had no stomach for a dispute in the Far East, Chiang insisted. In fact, Japanese troops were this week within half a mile of the borders of Hong Kong, inside which they accidentally popped a few shells...
...bodies by the onrush of debris. A corps of carpenters constructing wooden coffins saw a mass of mud moving down a valley, were themselves buried alive. Mothers tried to herd their young to safety as the slithering ground under their feet swept whole families to death. One seven-acre area was covered by a 20-ft. layer of clay...
Dorothy Thompson, Eddie Cantor, and Governor-elect Leverett Saltonstall '14 swill speak in Sanders Theatre tomorrow night a 8 o'clock at a mass meeting of college students in the Boston area who are interested in the German refuges problem...
Roland E. Peabody, managing director of the Cannon Mountain Tramway in Boston, says that extra trips will be made for Snow Train passengers. Reports from the area state that there are 19 inches of good, skiable snow on Cannon Mountain and about 12 inches in the Notch. The Cannon Mountain trail has been sidestepped over its entire length as has the Practice trail, and the upper half of the Taft trail. The Tramway is able to take 160 to 170 skiers to the heads of these trials each hour...