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...sober reading for Japanese jingoes: "Imagine a section of a subway, complete with a double set of rails well over 100 yards long, and lacking only the platforms, advertisements and escalators, and you have a fairly accurate picture of the Adventure's mine deck. ''This unique railway is served by about 80 officers and men, and its rolling stock consists of hundreds of the most powerful submarine mines in existence. . . . When the order is given to lay mines, the sinister 'train' is set in motion. Its speed can be regulated, and as each mine arrives...
Russian policy up until now has been extremely conciliatory, largely because she is occupied with internal affairs, and a war at this time might well prove disastrous; consequently, the Soviet has yielded time and again and has even virtually acquiesced in the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway by the Japs. Japan, on the other hand, has pursued a course of aggression and opportunism ever since Hay's Open Door policy gave her an opening wedge. With China bound to her by the infamous twenty-one demands, she tried in 1918 to gobble up Siberia, but found herself incapable...
...unable to supply him with unlimited funds for his troops. Recently Dr. Soong, without openly denouncing Generalissimo Chiang. has shown extreme distaste for his policy of conciliation toward Japan. With Soong out of the way, at least for a time, Chiang went the limit last week and announced regular railway service would be reestablished on Nov. 10 between China and Manchukuo for the first time in two years. He hinted that postal service would soon be restored, thus pointing to virtual acquiescence by China in the land grab by which Japan seized Manchuria and set it up as the puppet...
Born. To John Coolidge, 27, railway clerk, son of the late Calvin Coolidge, and Florence Trumbull Coolidge, 28, daughter of Connecticut's onetime Governor John H. Trumbull : a daughter, their first child; in New Haven, Conn. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz. Name: Cynthia. Divorced. "Prince" David Mdivani, eldest of Russia's famed "Marrying Mdivanis"; by Mae Murray, onetime cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: extreme cruelty, unreasonable jealousy, hos tility toward her guests. Awarded. To Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body) : the Roosevelt Medal "for distinguished service." To the late John Ripley Freeman (died...
...deal last August with Boston & Maine Railroad. The railroad opened an airline between Boston, Portland and Bangor, Me., hired Mrs. Putnam and Mr. Collins to run it for them as National Airways Inc. The company thrived well enough to interest the neighboring Maine Central Railroad and Central Vermont Railway which run into New Hampshire and Vermont. The difficulty of surface travel made air service logical, but would there be enough patronage? National Airways hit upon a simple scheme. Let local boosters prove the public demand by selling 1,000 tickets in advance. No tickets, no airline. Last week...