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...board Italian Bombing Fleet over Addle Ababa, by special wireless, collect, to the CRIMSON...
...Buyer Edwards. Since July cargoes of Soviet wheat from Sebastopol, coal and coal tar from Nicolaiev, and oil from Batum have been regularly arriving at Massaua and Mogadishu, Italian war bases in Africa. Much Soviet oil is also being sold to Italy direct, as Communists paradoxically fuel the Fascist fleet...
Japan winds up this week her Grand Naval Maneuvers and sea exercises of all sorts which have been going on since July 20. In the first phase, "fleet training.'' nobody was killed. In the second phase, "target practice," seven sailors met Death in a turret fire aboard the cruiser Ashigara. Then the fleet disappeared for five weeks of Grand Maneuvers in North Pacific waters...
...This Be Treason (by Rev. John Haynes Holmes & Reginald Lawrence; Theatre Guild, producer). On the evening of the inauguration of U. S. President John Gordon, internationally celebrated pacifist, the Japanese Fleet captures Manila. With malice toward none, President Gordon attributes the onslaught to an insulting ultimatum his bellicose predecessor, President Brainard, has sent Japan in the closing hours of his Administration. To the amazement of his Cabinet, to the disgust of a Congress which has apparently been bribed to a man by munitions interests, President Gordon orders every U. S. warship in the Pacific hot-footing home, invites the Japanese...
Wearing the black jersey that is his invariable yachting costume, Skipper Shields. 39, partner in the brokerage firm of Shields & Co. which is run by Brother Paul who owns Challenge, waved to the sudden whistle of 100 spectator boats, largest fleet that has ever followed a U. S. six-metre boat race. Beaten by nearly three minutes but grinning in honest approval of his opponent's skill, jovial little Magnus Konow, who looks like a browner, balder copy of the onetime Crown Prince of Germany, jumped out on the float, scrambled up the long steps to the clubhouse piazza...