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...willing to sell but want much more money than financially strapped Japan wants to pay. Troop movements, Japanese hectoring of Russian railwaymen. Soviet seizure of rolling stock are just so many stages of bargaining. Already the Manchukuo Ministry of Communications has renamed the C. E. R. the North Manchuria Railway...
...restrained protestations, Russia, in the last few days has once again attracted world-attention to the aggrandizement activities of the cocky Nipponese in the Orient. The Muscovites claim that Japan is attempting to scuttle away with their Chinese Eastern Railway, and informally Tokio rather complacently admits complicity with such schemes. As this news climbs to more important levels on the front pages of the dailies, militarists are gleefully clapping their hands at the prospects of a first-class imbroglio, although the possibilities of the scare reaching war proportions seem very vague indeed...
...enemy could reach island Venice by land. Navigation was difficult in the lagoon that separates it from the mainland. Venetians skated over the shallows in flat-bottomed gondolas, floated their houses on piles in the alluvial mud, cherished their "splendid isolation." They lost part of it when an iron railway viaduct was strung across the Laguna Venetia in 1846. But not until last week did a road, of brick and stone and concrete, ever attach Venice, "Pearl of the Adriatic," to Italy's mainland...
...begun and that night St. Mark's Square in Venice blazed with Venetian lanterns and bengal lights. Opened last week, the road is 57 mi. long, 2½ mi. of it a bridge over the lagoon proper, strung on arches sunk in the mud. It runs beside the railway viaduct and between the two is a concrete groove reserved for bicyclists. At the city end is Europe's biggest garage to take in the automobiles that will enter roadless Venice by its only motor entrance. Some Venetians muttered that it was significant that Venice's link...
...Chicago, Marion Harrison, Negro, 19, stood on an elevated railway platform, held up male passengers with his corncob pipe, forced them to remove their clothes, acquired an Easter wardrobe. He put it on, went out to lunch, returned to the platform, held up another passenger to secure his necktie, was arrested, chortled to detectives: "I got a nifty outfit...