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...crime against humanity," urged Japan, if diplomacy failed, to break through encirclement "by force." Last week the Army acted by: 1) denying gasoline to all Japanese busses, taxis, private automobiles; 2) setting up a special A.R.P. bureau in the Home Ministry and distributing instructions on how to combat incendiary bombs (at Vladivostok Russian planes are only 625 miles from wooden-housed industrial Japan); 3) concentrating men, tanks, planes, food, ammunition in Manchukuo...
...flying is not experimental. Mitchel's are officers in combat squadrons assigned to the job of defending New York City and vicinity. At places like Hempstead pilots are forced to fly low over the city in landings or takeoffs. And 24-year-old Mitchel Field, representing an investment of millions, could not reasonably be abandoned nor could most of the Army's other great bases, which are cities...
...characteristic of a good combat officer is that for him no effort is too much if it is needed to beat the enemy. To eliminate officers who lack the energy to make such efforts, the U.S. Army last week set up new age limits...
...plague is spread in two ways: 1) by fleas; 2) by the sneezes of victims who suffer from the "pneumonic" form of the disease. To combat it, the conference last week asked for a Government expenditure of $1,800,000, mostly for a war on rodents...
...When warfare netted too few victims, Aztec tribes arranged a ceremonial combat, called the War of Flowers. No one was killed in the battle, but prisoners were used for human sacrifices...