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Like a luscious, dangling fruit is Manchuria, granary of the Orient, the only part of China not impoverished by war and famine, a prosperous land that absorbs annually $36,000,000 worth of U. S. goods. Last week the growling and hissing of Russian Bear and Chinese Dragon over the Manchurian prize grew increasingly furious until the two Great Powers clawed warily at each other, drew a few spurts of soldier blood. Such was the smoke screen of lies set up by both antagonists that alert observers could set down only a few vital, verifiable developments...
...named in honor of Major Walter Reed (1851-1902), Army Surgeon, who was dispatched to Cuba in June, 1900, to learn the causes of yellow fever ("yellow jack") and whose discovery that the disease was transmitted by Stegomyia calopus (mosquito) paved the way for the slaying of that "yellow dragon" and the construction of the Panama Canal. Major Reed died of appendicitis, is buried at Arlington. To the place named for him are taken men hurt and broken in the nation's service. Wives of Army men travel thousands of miles to bear their children there, with free...
...great arsenal in Mukden is going to be transformed into an automobile factory, by far the largest in the East. We shall make 'Chinese Dragon' cars and also 'Baby Dragons.' I see no reason why one day China may not export these cars to Europe and America...
...produce enough artillery, rifles and ammunition for the latest Chinese civil war. So perfect and efficient are copies of the famed French "75" field gun now made in Mukden, that if ever the arsenal is set to copying motor cars it may prove difficult to tell a "Baby Dragon" from an "Austin Seven." Similarly, tractors are made in Soviet Russia so exactly like those produced by Henry Ford- even to the name plate - that simple peasants to whom they are sold never know the difference...
...average undergraduate could have so surely plunged his rapier to the heart of a system long held the most invulnerable dragon of the American system; there remains only to consider which varies most from the norm, the robot on one side, or he whom the first news article immortalizes as the Vagabond King, on the other. But that is comparatively simple, even the first group man is slave to the academic machine; but he who puts his finger on a weak spot in the works may be forever free...