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Three days later the Pawley kidnapping took a dramatic turn. Mrs. Pawley's big Alsatian escaped and, footsore and half-starved, found his way back to the home of her father, where he barked and barked. A frightened peasant reported that he had seen Mrs. Pawley hidden in a hut only 30 miles from Newchang, that she was well treated, but needed food. It was a great chance for Japanese authorities to show how much they are needed in Manchuria. The British Consul General in Mukden and Japanese Commander-in-Chief General Muto held several conferences, finally decided...
...months ago the first clash occurred. Last week Bolivian forces, sweating through the jungle, attacked and captured a fortified Paraguayan hut proudly known as Fort Boqueron. Little Paraguay has a regular army of only 3,000 men, but no bantams crowed more fiercely than the pugnacious Paraguayans last week. Pudgy, pop-eyed President Jose P. Guggiari sent a strong protest to the League of Nations against Bolivian aggression, then mobilized the army and published a clarion to his people...
...Baltimore last week arrived the steamship City of Elwood with one python. When the City of Elwood left Shanghai it had two pythons aboard. One escaped in Manila, wandered ashore. Near a native's hut it saw a pig, which it swallowed. The pig was tied to the hut. Three days later the native found the python dying of indigestion...
...which people ate to live, lived to drink and drank to forget living. In the first flush of their romance Vondorn takes up drinking again, and with that his tale is as good as told. How he and Juno run off to live and decay together in a hut in the desert, how Vondorn slaves at his book, how he visits the nearby Beldoro Observatory, prepares to take up residence with Juno there, is only the long prelude to the ultimate cough that wafts him to sleep under death's starless coverlid...
Attired in rough garb Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of the Philippines, stopped at a farm hut near the tip of Luzon, solicitously asked the native farmwife how her hens were laying. The woman replied they were not laying at all, offered the Governor a coin worth 10? so that he might buy eggs in the village...