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...London Naval Treaty expired at the end of last year without ever having been fulfilled by the U. S., the U. S. Navy consisted of 325 fighting ships, 212 of which, including 158 destroyers, were classified as "over age." Now abuilding or appropriated for in the present push to reach the quotas are 87 vessels, including besides the North Carolina and Washington three aircraft carriers, ten cruisers, 55 destroyers and 17 submarines, the keel for one of which, the Swordfish, was laid last week at the Navy's yard in Mare Island, Calif. Only nation to admit to bigger...
...first time in ten weeks all the rival Japanese forces at Shanghai-the land, sea and air forces of the Son of Heaven-buried their mutual jealousies last week and clicked together in the unified "big push" which Japanese spokesmen had been daily heralding for so long that Shanghai correspondents were becoming incredulous. In Tokyo the Ministers of the Army and Navy are not responsible to the Premier but only to the Emperor direct, this peculiar setup often leading to excessive maladjustment between the fighting services. Last week they slugged together to bend back the Chinese line in the country...
Significance. Japan's "big push" was accompanied by the bursting for the first time of stray Japanese shells in such fashion as to kill four British Tommies and wound six more by this week. Tommies had held their fire while General Telfer-Smollet flung himself flat and escaped a round of Japanese machine gun bullets fired at fleeting Chinese, but foreign tempers in Shanghai were so short that even U. S. Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell gave orders that U. S. forces in Shanghai, if attacked, were to fight back...
Although unable to exert the extra push required in winning games the Freshman football team is growing stronger and stronger in each appearance. Despite a record to date of four successive defeats and not a single victory, Coach Neil Stahley is far from discouraged about his 1941 gridders. As long as the eleven continues to improve in fundamentals, Stahley will be content...
Throwing paper airplanes at a "push-over" game is childish and bad sportmanship, and one of the worst phases of "Harvard indifference," but the throwing of hard objects from behind, so that identification of the thrower is impossible, is in addition no less than cowardice, especially when no discrimination is made against ladies. Besides the wadded and rolled magazines, beer cans were thrown, and one girl was struck in the ankle with a bottle, to say nothing of the numerous jolting slaps in the backs of heads. And coming in the face of the misfortunes of the team the undergraduates...