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Angry crowds gathered in Dalhousie Square, shouted "Jai Hind!" ("Victory to India"), the battle cry of India's nationalists. They lay across railway tracks to stop trains, persuaded bus, tram, taxi and ricksha drivers to join them, forced shops to close down. They put up road blocks, set afire British and U.S. military vehicles, stoned Tommies and G.I.s, tossed bricks and a hand grenade into the Thanksgiving dance of the American Officers' Club at Karnani Estates. Adding to the city's chaos was a municipal workers' strike (for more wages) which threatened the water supply...
Last week a Chungking spokesman declared: the Viet Nam movement was an internal Indo-Chinese affair; while China would not recognize the native "provisional government," neither would it interfere with it. The spokesman also hinted that China wanted a voice in the operation of the French-owned railway that runs from the Indo-Chinese port of Haiphong to Kunming in China's southern hinterland...
...piece of religious statuary which a sculptor had traded to the Indians of Ayacachi in 1586 for a few pieces of lumber, was credited with miraculous powers. She could cure fistulas and the pox and prevent disasters as well. Last week the Virgin of Quinche figured in the greatest railway disaster in Ecuador's history...
President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra proclaimed a national day of mourning. Neighboring countries rushed plasma and medicines. Railway men doubted that even Quinche's famed Virgin could prevent railway disasters until Ecuador could buy new rolling stock and spare parts from...
Axis issues were on the climb. Typical examples: Jap bonds (Sterling Loan 53, 1907), which on the eve of war were quoted at 22, had risen to 29. Italian certificates (Maremmana Railway 55, 1862), quoted at 55, stood at 23^ when the U.S. got into the war; German (73, 1924, Young), selling at 17, had more than doubled. On the newly opened Frankfurt Exchange, stocks & bonds of much-bombed industries were 10 to 15% above wartime levels. Even in companies which had been completely destroyed, security prices were often 40 to 50% of their wartime value. But this...