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Tokyo censors passed cables in which foreign correspondents guessed this meant the Japanese Navy will proceed to take Chinese Hainan Island adjacent to French Indo-China. Hainan lies uncomfortably close to the French naval base at Saigon and commands the route between British Hong Kong and British Singapore. Hainan in...
Last week Dr. Hauser's bentonite film was billed as an excellent wrapping material for butter and other oily foods, as a good insulator for electric cables. It can be used like paper for printing and writing.
In primarily industrial Catalonia, her population swollen with refugees, her few railroads and highways glutted with military supplies, the possibility of famine was so urgent last week that Barcelona's press bureau sent cables to U. S. Leftist sympathizers appealing for food. Should France and England grant belligerent rights...
The Territorials, familiarly known as the "Terriers," roughly correspond to U.S. National Guardsmen. They have charge of Britain's antiaircraft and coastal defenses, the balloon barrages (rows of sausage-shaped gas bags, suspending thin, steel cables, which will be anchored to truck-winches and floated above the industrial centres...
While two batches of dirty Leftist linen underwent vigorous washing last week (see above), Premier Dr. Juan Negrin announced he would go on the air at Barcelona, short-waving to the world. Punctually at the appointed hour Rightist bombers,. Rightist radio interference and Dr. Negrin all spoke up. As a...