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...Aderemi, the Oni of Ife, whose 3,200,000 Yoruban subjects in Nigeria call him "The Fountain of Honor." The Oni sprayed good will around London, gave a fatherly pat to his youngest subject in England (see cut), and reminded Britons that for twelve years he was a railway clerk, signalman and traffic instructor. "I had to give it up when I became king," he said...
...River. Here the Communist line ends. On the river's opposite shore Nationalists stand guard. Whoever tries to wade, swim or boat across will be shot. This is a precaution against possible over-water attack by disguised Communists. The only unmolested transit is by way of the blasted railway bridge, a fearful half mile catwalk of twisted girders...
Below Shanhaikuan the Communists have been raiding the railway on & off. When it runs, the refugees pour down toward Tientsin and Peiping, hard-pressed, pinched and depressed cities themselves but veritable gardens of delight and luxury to the people from the north...
Passes & Profits. Springs first applied his zany bounce to business with the Lancaster & Chester Railway, a 29-mile line which his father bought to ship goods to & from his two mills...
...rebels pinned the police to their barracks with heavy automatic fire, others expertly sabotaged the coal mine-the only one operating in all Malaya. Shooting up a school bus and murdering a foreman and four workers, 37 of the bandits, including a teen-age girl, swept down on the railway station and held up an incoming train. The rebel leader emptied the railroad cash box, snapped: "We only want European property. We are going to kill every white man in Malaya." As the rebels left, the girl guerrilla took the station first-aid hamper with...