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...Some 3,000 shares in the strategic 486-mile railway connecting the capital of land-locked Abyssinia with the sea in French Somaliland. Only over this railway is it practicable for Haile Selassie (which means Power of Trinity) to import, from the outside world, munitions with which to defend his empire...
...pacts and protocols. All were signed with celerity by Mussolini and Laval, after which correspondents spent a frantic evening cabling summaries. In sum France and Italy agreed: 1) that Italy will receive some 58,000 sq. mi. of French African territory, also a share in the French-controlled strategic railway which dominates Abyssinia, and an outlet providing Italy with a port on the Gulf of Aden; 2) that Italy will aid France toward bringing Germany to a reasonable stabilization of her armaments and in inducing the Fatherland to return to the League; 3) that Austrian independence shall be guaranteed...
Passing through Omaha on his way East, Citizen Herbert Hoover stopped off for lunch in the railway station, admitted he had gained three pounds since leaving the White House. Next day in Chicago he told newshawks: "A purely personal business trip. ... I am always sorry for the Press because I can give them no news...
...days later the Government proudly opened the first railway ever to pierce remote Shensi Province and connect with the 20th Century world legendary Sian, capital of China during the Ts'in, Han and T'ang dynasties (246 B.C.-907 A.D.). As opened last week the railway is the newest link in a line that strikes 650 miles into Central China, connects Sian with Shanghai, Nanking and Peiping. Later it will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall. All last week excited passengers, most of whom had galloped in on horseback...
Cause. Last week the American Railway Association reported a slight rise in railroad accidents in 1934, attributed it to the increase in rail traffic over 1933. In the first eight months of 1934 nine passengers, 57 employes were killed. For last week's highly extraordinary series of rail mishaps Association officials had two explanations: 1) coincidence; 2) the fallibility...