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Typical of belated but glorious news received by Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at Nanking last week was this telegram from Red Napoleon Chu: "First the left flank of our army began an attack against Ningwu, which was held by the Japanese and is situated 30 miles west of the important Great Wall pass of Yenmenkwan. After besieging the city for four days we finally recaptured it, taking 2,000 Japanese prisoners...
...instruction period young Mussolini was to put in in the film capital was cut to seven after cinema trade papers carried full-page ads denouncing Vittorio Mussolini for having bombed Ethiopians last year and quoting him as having said "To me war is a sport-the most glorious sport in existence...
...worst-taught courses in the curriculum.' We must teach fundamental dogmas rather than the frills and accidentals of Religion. . . . There is too much fluffy-ruffle stuff in pious books-entirely too much. I would like to take 90% of the spiritual books written and make a glorious bonfire of them, and their authors too, because they do not tell fundamental truths...
...dank Scotland in the Empire is its excellence as a breeding ground for grouse. This year there were the usual troubling reports that heavy February and March snows had scattered the grouse far afield, that coveys had been thinned by starvation and disease. But with the approach of the "Glorious Twelfth," traditional August opening of the shooting season, grouse were reported rising as thickly as ever. Last week on the moors thousands of beaters got into action with white flags, forming semicircles to drive the grouse over the concealed "butts" where shotguns waited to bring them plummeting into the purple...
...great rapidity by hosts and guests on dogs (which cost up to $40 apiece to rent), dozens of beaters ($2 each a day), a loader for each gun ($2.50 a day), shells, servants, tips, food. To bring down one grouse costs between $5 and $10. This year's Glorious Twelfth, however, dawned unpromisingly with rentals expected to total only about $1,500,000, as compared to the $7,500,000 of a peak year like 1929. That indicated that Scotsmen would be shooting a great many of their own birds this year...