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...Emperor furthermore agreed to give all possible aid to the British Army, to stage no private wars, to permit only the British and those to whom they give permission to fly over his country. The management of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway and the wireless station at Addis Ababa will be in the hands of the Commander in Chief of the British Army in Africa. The Army also received the right to use all Italian property in Ethiopia (assessed at $3 20,000,000-$360,000,000) without payment. To help guide the Negus' footsteps, British political advisers...
...exist, heedless of the swirling currents of humanity that pass and crash at its corner. But inside its three walls things will be different, for after having served the functional purpose of an airraid shelter during the War, the Lampoon will have been turned over to the Boston Elevated Railway as a subway station...
SINGAPORE--Japanese troops pushed down the Malaya Railway, through the center of the Imperial defense line, to within 31 miles of Singapore today for an 18-mile advance in two days against flercely-fighting but outnumbered Australians...
Specifically fortunate in his present job are two attributes. He knows something about the Japanese because he spent his childhood in Japan, where his father built many miles of railway and where Henry learned to speak, read and write Japanese. And he was first in time and remains first in sentiment an artillery man-a specialty for which the Supreme Command may be thankful if Singapore, a regular gun-porcupine of an island, falls under close siege...
...Guatemala confiscated its German-owned railway, heard with satisfaction that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to Central America who tried to torpedo the Havana Conference in 1940 and who was expelled from headquarters in Guatemala, had been met when his ship docked in Brooklyn, escorted to a reunion with other German diplomats at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va...