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...Lunghai Railway defended by the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The Lunghai Railway connects (via the Peking-Hankow line) Chiang Kai-shek's capital at Hankow with Sian, capital of Communist-held Shensi and source of Soviet supplies coming in from Outer Mongolia. The Japanese force cut this link at Szeshui last week, but made no further advance after crossing the river. Chinese were reported to have blown up dikes along the Yellow River, flooding the countryside and thus blocking Japanese mechanized forces...
Chinese officials minimized the Japanese rail-link snipping at Szeshui, pointed out that there still remained open a five-day highway connection between Hankow and Sian. They announced that at Tungkwan, where the river crooks like an elbow between Shensi and Shansi Provinces, Chinese troops were still holding the main body of Japanese troops to the opposite bank of the river...
...Laurence Dwight Smith's Death Is Thy Neighbor, Nard Jones's The Case of the Hanging Lady, George Bagby's Murder on the Nose, G. D. H. & Margaret Cole's The Missing Aunt, Whitman Chambers' Dog Eat Dog, Carolyn Wells's The Missing Link, William Gore's The Mystery of the Painted Nude, Ellery Queen's The Devil...
...182The President celebrated his 56th birthday one day early with a dinner for the "Cuff Link Club"-Roosevelt intimates who have been awarded gold cuff links for faithful service.* On the night of the President's Birthday Balls-to raise funds for the infantile paralysis campaign-he broadcast a personal message but attended none of the seven balls given in Washington. Up to this year the Birthday Balls have been run by old Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised. This year the President apparently realized the paradox...
...evolutional link between ape and man was less missing than mended last week, as two separate conversations between humans and chimpanzees took place...