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...Canton. With neighboring Hunan it forms a natural corridor of parallel rivers and ridges from Central to Southern and Southwestern China. Chinese colonists, early British explorers like Macartney in 1793 and Amherst in 1816, the wildfire Nationalist Armies in 1926-27, the trunk line of the Peking-Hankow-Canton railway-all chose the corridor for their routes. And so, last week, did the Japanese Army...
...siege, Warsaw's hungry defenders were tempted by huge German posters in Polish reading, POLES! COME TO US. WE WILL NOT HURT YOU. WE WILL GIVE YOU BREAD! Polish officers who finally came out with a flag of truce were received by German General Johannes Blaskowitz in his railway staff car in a scene reminiscent of the signing of World War I's armistice in the car of Generalissimo Ferdinand Foch. General Rommel, commanding the defense of Warsaw, had instructed his emissaries to ask only a brief truce for the evacuation of civilians and the wounded. After this...
...buildings, 2,000,000 cattle, 1.000,000 horses, 1,500,000 sheep and goats. Half of all its bridges-7,500-were destroyed, as well as 940 railway stations. All of the rolling stock of the railways in Russian Poland had been stolen, as well as 4,259 electric motors and 3,844 tooling machines...
Heartbroken and embittered, Poland's leaders faced more than the loss of their country at the railway stations in Rumania. No trains ran to the destination that they had to face. The Republic was dead. In its 20 years of life it had grown despite the fact that it had only a period between 1926 and 1929, some 30 months at most, of prosperity. The men who divided it talked of the injustice of the treaty of Versailles...
...coal industry was under pressure to supply domestic customers anxious to pile up stocks at pre-war prices; needy belligerents and neutrals who formerly bought from England or Germany. Last week the Norfolk & Western Railway which taps the mines of West Virginia and Kentucky carried 20,845 cars of coal, just 48 cars less than its all time record in the boom week of March 27, 1937. Any further increases in production are limited by: 1) the fact that many mines have not now the man power or machine power to shift to a six-day week; 2) such coal...