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This was no empty claim since the Chinese Government, despite its sacrifice of the provincial revenues, still held and holds the main source of Chinese income, the Maritime Customs, a source beyond the reach of squabbling inland war lords. Moreover China's bonds are mostly payable in English pounds and sterling has slipped steadily during 1932-thus making it easier for China to pay interest...
...Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Merchant Marine was to be transferred: 1) the Shipping Board, now independent; 2) the Hydrographic Office and Naval Observatory, from the Navy; 3) Inland Waterways Corp. (Mississippi barge line) from the War Department...
...defensive naval weapons," said Admiral Nagano. "Our principle is to reduce the means of attack while strengthening the means of defense. . . . Aircraft carriers are the most offensive of all naval weapons because, by means of their planes, they can not only attack the coast but carry destruction far inland. . . . Japan and the United States are each other's good customers. I see no reason why-especially with the vast Pacific Ocean between us-any differences in our naval views should not be reconciled in a satisfactory manner...
...bird appeared in the city, and it had arrived on shipboard. Most finders promptly called or hurried to the Bronx Zoo, learned the fallen strangers were little auks, cousins of the least auklet and the extinct great auk. Winging southward from their Arctic loomeries,they had been blown inland by a 65-m. p. h. gale...
...last storm-tossed shower was at Boston in 1871. Only 20 recorded times in the past 40 years has the bird been found inland. Looking somewhat like a dove-sized penguin, the little auk is helpless on land. It feeds chiefly on a type of water bug found only at sea, needs the impetus of a wave to get into the air. Of nearly 100 picked up in New York's metropolitan area last week, only four survived...