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...shek was debating whether to create a supreme diversion by ordering dynamited the principal dikes of the Yellow River, famed for ages as "China's Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has spent over $1,000,000 for flood control and famine relief in this area. Such dynamiting, experts warned, would inundate lands now inhabited by 40,000,000 Chinese and, while it would engulf large Japanese forces, might well rank as the greatest man-made catastrophe in history...
...never as to their nationality. This was because there are in Davao more than 20,000 prosperous Japanese, who control the Philippine hemp industry, own 63,800 acres under legal leases, even more illegally. At week's end, three Philippine Army planes flew from Manila, scouted the Davao area. Most correspondents concluded from official silence that nobody could find a war fleet, that the jittery customs officer had seen either some harmless tankers or fishing boats, or an equally harmless yellow mirage...
Three Regimes. In Barcelona determined Leftist Premier Juan Negrin clarioned "Fight on!," telephoned to Madrid's famed old General José Miaja appointing him military dictator of Southern Leftist Spain. Its area this week was 60,975 square miles; that of Premier Negrin's own Northern Leftist Spain 9,725 square miles; while the area of Rightist Spain was 125,900 square miles...
...today), necessitating creation of Government monopolies for imports and exports, prohibition of entry or departure of Iran's paper or silver money. Food prices doubled, taxes trebled. To meet clearing agreement promises, large stores of grain, rice, dried fruits, some needed for home consumption, were exported. In one area His Imperial Majesty decreed that cotton should be grown instead of wheat. Drought ensued, the cotton crop failed, and to make matters worse the world's cotton market just then fell. To the Iranian masses this meant extreme privation, to foreign visitors scenes in Iran's villages were...
This statement from Eagle Pencil Co. did much to mollify Salvadorans last week. El Salvador nestles between Guatemala and Honduras on the west coast of Central America. Its area is 13,176 square miles and its 1,600,000 population are chiefly Indians & half-castes. It became an independent republic in 1839, on the dissolution into independent republics of the Central American Federation. This had comprised the States of (from north to south) Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. El Salvador, the smallest, most densely populated of the Central American countries, has 80% of her soil under cultivation...