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...have made a deal with a neighbor for a subscription between us. He has first crack at it at three bucks, and I get it after he is through with it, for the remaining two bucks. In this drought area a man has to be cagey...
...Tsinan's military police. Last week hundreds of Chinese soldiers, disguised as coolies or even dressed as market girls, filtered into Tsinan, with arms concealed beneath their clothing. There were whispered conferences with the Chinese battalion leaders and then, encouraged by reports of Chinese success in the Lunghai area, Tsinan's Chinese police revolted. Grabbing their pistols, the only arms allowed them by the Japanese, they barricaded themselves in the suburbs. Coolies and market girls whipped off their disguises, rushed to join them. Three Chinese guerrilla columns suddenly appeared outside and, at last reports, had succeeded in gaining...
...scene of back-&-forth fighting for a fortnight, the Chinese hurled new Soviet tanks, fresh German-trained troops into the line, recaptured the city. At last reports the Japanese had dug in at Yihsien, 20 miles to the rear, where they were attempting to consolidate their forces in the area. Chinese armies hammered against the town in an effort to drive the Japanese farther back...
...press services soon afterward had it from highest British and Italian quarters. In general the treaty is to secure against Italian aggression British trade routes and spheres of influence on the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and to secure against British aggression the Italian trade routes and territories in this area, including Ethiopia (see map). The treaty would become operative after Italy withdrew her men from the territory of the Rightist Spaniards; and Britain would undertake to get the Italian Empire recognized by all members of the League of Nations, including Britain...
...quite so hard hit are the semi-industrial, semi-agricultural regions such as upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Cold blast furnaces drove trade in the Pittsburgh region down 19%. In the furniture manufacturing area near Albany, citizens felt the dearth of new furniture buying and due to that and other causes trade fell 15%. Florida's dwindling tourist influx was offset by a flock of new paper mills to keep the decline to 18%. Birmingham coal and iron mines were less active. Cotton mills in Georgia and the Carolinas, which were working overtime year ago, were generally on part...