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Dumped one night last week into a big hole inside bleak Jilava Fortress, near Bucharest, were the bullet-ridden bodies of 14 leaders of the Iron Guard, Rumania's suppressed, German-financed party. No one else was present when soldiers shoveled the last spadeful of cold dirt over the corpses of the young fanatics who had banded together in a Jew-baiting, terrorist group to oust the Government and set up a Nazi State in Rumania...
What hundreds of Soviet soldiers, tanks and heavy guns were unable to do ten weeks ago-drive the Japanese off bleak & barren Changkufeng hill on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border-September's floods accomplished. Last week travelers from Manchukuo reported that Russian troops, after Japanese retired before the flood, planted their red flag atop the hill and began to pit it with fortifications...
There have been some cases of Monday pessimism on Soldiers Field of recent years, but only once after an opening game. Yesterday afternoon, however, from the H.A.A. on Quincy Street to the very northern extreme of the practice field, the atmosphere was slightly bleak...
...Over the bleak, barren hill of Changkufeng on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border seven weeks ago snarled the fighting forces of Japan and Russia. Moscow claimed the whole hill was in Soviet territory when the scrap started. But when a truce was finally arranged between Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff and Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan was left with her present firm hold on the westward slope of Changkufeng. Russia agreed to submit final ownership to arbitration, thus gave up her previous absolute claim to Changkufeng. For this truce Japan last week was ready to pay off in kudos. Tokyo dispatches...
...bleak Gull Rock, at the Shelburne harbor mouth, Alf Kenney had cause to marvel more. A monster tuna took his bait and for 4½ hr. he learned what it is like to be attached to an animated submarine. Back aching, arms numb, slim Alf Kenney stuck it out, killed his fish and when it tipped official scales at 864 lb., received congratulations on a new world record-13 lb. heavier than the North Sea tuna caught in 1933 by Mitchell Henry of England...