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...trotting behind a murderous Japanese barrage the Imperial troops entered Shanhaikwan's dragon-crested South Gate. Firing from cover Chinese riflemen drove them back once, twice. Next artillery battered breaches in the walls, Japanese troops burst through, fought bayonet-to-bayonet with desperate Chinese among the low mud huts of Shanhaikwan's narrow, winding streets. Hurtling from the sky Japanese bombs set the city afire, rained death among soldiers and civilians alike. Japanese gunners, when they finally got the range, concentrated on Shanhaikwan's famed Drum Tower which has sounded, warnings for centuries, sent it crashing down...
Every Thanksgiving Day in Manhattan, R. H. Macy & Co. stages a parade of huge comic balloons designed by Tony Sarg. When the procession ends the balloons are released. Cash prizes are paid for their return. But after famed Clarence Chamberlin snared a yellow-&-black dragon on the wingtip of his plane last year and collected $25, Macy's announced that aviators in flight were disqualified as balloon-hunters...
...London it was revealed that in 1926 Samuel Insull sponsored British Walker Vehicle Co. which made 20 chassis, sold four. British creditors hoped they might discover funds in the mysterious Dragon Investment Co., Ltd., an Insull trust. Dragon's directors are mostly clerks in the big law firm of Slaughter & May, solicitors for the Insulls...
Roar of the Dragon (RKO) is a cinema story of what happens to Occidentals caught in China when good Chinese are away at the wars and the bandits whistle in the treetops. The chief bandit is Voronsky (C. Henry Gordon) whose whispered name is enough to send Chinese Paul Reveres scudding over the country. Huddled against Voronsky's coming are the whites under the leadership of a drunken riverboat captain (Richard Dix). They stand off Voronsky with a machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid...
...strange drone grew out of the southern sky. The Yawalapiti children ceased playing. The adults stopped working and talking. The droning thing became visible very high up in the sky. It looked like a dragon fly. But it was bigger than a condor. The amazed Yawalapiti watched it circle down upon their village with a snarl louder than the snarl of any jaguar that ever lived...