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Nevertheless, the German press this week began carrying stories of attacks by Poles on German women and children, the all-too-familiar German method of preparatory propaganda before expanding the Reich frontiers. The rolling stock of the Polish Railway Administration was removed from Danzig and environs and "more than 10,000 troops" were moved into Gdynia, Polish port twelve miles from Danzig. The Polish standing Army was increased to some 400,000 men and the Polish Army journal, Polska Zbrojna, published a defiant editorial labeled We Are Ready...
...German engineers will build roads, improve river transportation and overhaul the Rumanian railway system...
...week's end France was confident that a satisfactory deal could be made with Italy which would necessitate giving up only a few of the concessions demanded by Italy-such as a free port at Djibouti, the Addis Ababa railway, and a share in the Suez Canal. But England was confident three weeks ago that Adolf Hitler would behave himself. As for the Italian people, they were anxious for glory but somewhat jittery. Signor Mussolini closed his speech with an old Fascist motto: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" The Italians knew whom to obey, but just what to believe and whom...
...went one campaign into Chekiang Province, right at Shanghai's unconquered back door. Pop! went another into Kiangsi. Objective of the new drive was Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi. A city of 500,000, Nanchang is a key point on the Chekiang-Hunan railway, China's last line of supply from the east coast. In two days, according to Japanese reports, 1,100 Chinese lay dead and 6,500 were captured. In seven days the offensive banged its way into Nanchang...
Died. Samuel Thomas Bledsoe, 70, president since 1933 of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway; of internal hemorrhage; in Chicago...