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Colonel Rusteika, head of the Lithuanian secret political police, lay on his bed at Kovno last week snoring soundly. Two young students burst into his bedroom, shot him in the head, stabbed him in the body. Colonel Rusteika is corporeally tough. He did not die. The students were captured. Their confession led straight to the most interesting man in Lithuania, Augustine Waldemaras, Prime Minister-Dictator of Lithuania from...
Professor Tsankoff mortally hates and fears secret societies. Across his forehead is a jagged white scar, received during his Prime Ministry when a Bolshevist bomb, intended to wipe out him and his entire cabinet, burst and killed 200 Sofia citizens. Yet his dearest friend, a General Protogeroff, was a leader of one branch of the Imro. Converted by his friend. General Protogeroff publicly announced that he had abandoned violence as a policy, would limit himself to peaceful propaganda. Soon General Protogeroff was shot down as a lily-livered weakling. Left in sole command of the Imro was the sinister gunman...
...assassination is common; etc., etc. (TIME, March 11, et seq.). One night last week Editor Pacheco found himself in a position to write no more. A curtained automobile stopped in front of his home in Cerro (Havana suburb). Editor Pacheco was standing on the sidewalk. Out of the automobile burst a stream of fire and bullets, nine of which tore through Editor Pacheco's middle...
...consequences were noticed for nine months. Then: "The news at first fuliginous in its incomprehensibleness soon became fulgent in its clarity." The "red snow" had sterilized humanity. With all the restraints of care for posterity at once removed, civilization began to disintegrate. Racial hatreds flamed and religious wars burst out. Fanatics seized governments. The U. S. sent a crusading army of ten million into central Asia. Economic systems faltered. Workmen abandoned their labors. Women became untamed sexual aggressors. Problems that would occupy 20 volumes are dismissed in sentences. Nations perish in a paragraph, continents in a chapter. Each phase...
...pinned under a building, starving but still alive, moaning for help. Just as the royal car entered the village another wall collapsed, killed Giuseppina and one of her rescuers. King Vittorio Emanuele, who had stood helplessly wringing his hands before a similar scene in another village an hour before, burst into tears...