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...Meknes, in inland Morocco, a bored French sergeant marched a platoon through the white deserted streets before dawn one day last week, posted his men at strategic street corners. The men lit cigarets and waited...
...sunset the blood-spattered streets of Meknes were deserted. The French sergeant assembled his platoon, marched it back to barracks...
...surprises for fish, a surprise for the 200,000 stream-whippers and worm-danglers of New York State was in preparation last week. Elaborating on President Hoover's public-spirited idea of shortening the interval between bites (TIME, Oct. 6), Conservation Commissioner Henry Morgenthau Jr. was training a platoon of public servants to assist unskilled fishermen to find fish and catch them. The State has 150 fish and game protectors. It was Commissioner Morgenthau's idea to put these individuals into uniforms-brown whipcord cut like the State Policemen's, with a blue band around their caps...
...imperceptible degrees, Number One tips his head forward until the offending angle of incidence sends the sun's rays glinting off the top of the polished hat and over the heads of the second platoon...
...character was given the desultory guerilla warfare against Afridi tribesmen on the northwest frontier when one of a party of tribesmen shot down and killed a Capt. F. Ashcroft of a British infantry platoon, Observers thought that the incident would precipitate a far more aggressive policy on the part of the British toward suppressing the uprising...