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...Harvard kouprey, an old adult bull, was shot by Mr. Francois Edmond-Blanc, member of a Franco-American scientific expedition to Indo-China. The ox was presented to the Museum of Comparative Zoology by James C. Greenway, Jr. of the Museum staff, who was also a member of the expedition...
...paper reports an estimate of only about one thousand head of kouprey still surviving in the forests of southern Indo-China, which means that this scientifically important genus will probably become extinct unless immediate government protection is provided...
...things had given the Chinese hope. Firstly, the Japanese had gravely weakened their garrisons, especially in the extreme north and extreme south, in order to penetrate French Indo-China with a proper show of "peacefulness." Secondly, the Burma Road was open...
...small villages. A Chinese force also attacked the town of Langsi and "liquidated all of the Japanese defenders." Farther south, only 100 miles from Shanghai, another Chinese Army forced its way across the Chientang River. In the extreme southwest, whence the Japanese carelessly drained troops for the investment of Indo-China, some of China's best troops claimed the capture of three towns near Nanning. This week the Japanese quit...
After the war this hearty and charming southerner took a share of his family's publishing fortune (L'Indépendant of Perpignan) and proceeded to found an importing business in Indo-China which soon hit the jack pot, permitting him to amass one of the world's most important private collections of Napoleonana. As a press officer in the Air Ministry in World War II. "Chariot" Brousse acquired the reputation of being the most prodigious wangler in Paris and gained the gratitude of all U. S. newsmen for his many feats of bypassing departmental red tape...