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...least, keeps every one of his well-paid, well-fed soldiers toeing the mark. Within five hours Federals were moving against Gibara, by land, by sea, in the air. The filibusters got their asthmatic freight no farther than the station before five combat planes were ripping over the area, dropping bombs, strafing the ground with short bursts of machine gun fire. The anti-aircraft gun barked angrily. One bullet knocked the magneto off Capt. Torres Menier's plane. Two more planes, one piloted by Lieut. Rodolfo Herrera, son of the Cuban Army's Chief of Staff, were shot...
...waters of the Yangtze, swollen by last month's rains-rose to 53.4 ft., ten feet above flood level, and continued going higher, relief agencies were mobilizing for a task that looked impossible. Of China's great central plain, an area 500 by 1,000 miles was affected by the floods, not only of the Yangtze but of the Hwai River to the north. Homeless were 30,000,000 people; 10,000,000 were utterly destitute, with hundreds dying daily. Eventually, it was estimated, the death toll would reach 2,000,000. Pestilence was abroad, was to become...
...imperialist-led Orange Demonstration has been arranged for Cootehill tomorrow. Its organizers are imperialist agents of Britain whose purpose is to perpetuate the sectarian division of the mass of common people in this area. . . . "There is conflict between the Irish Republic and British imperialism and imperialist displays won't be tolerated...
Hankow was near the center of the flood area. Thousands of frightened, bedraggled peasants poured into the native city that sank lower and lower beneath the Yangtze wraters. With the streets waist-deep in the swirling, dirty flood, fire broke out. There was no way to fight it. A few brave watermen pushed their little sampans from house to house trying to rescue trapped families, but scores died. There was danger of pestilence. Foreign correspondents were less interested in the millions of homeless and thousands of dead than in two U. S. citizens, Mrs. Webb and a Mrs. Fielding...
...Failure on the first question means failure altogether. If you have not developed your understanding ... of obligation . . . then your intuitions . . . your aptitudes, your knowledge of institutions, your language will not save you from failure. ... I mean (by intuitions) that whole area which underlies our ordinary mental machinery...