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...Hitlerites began punching each others' noses all over Germany. In Hamburg a mob of Communists swept down the street shouting "Hunger, Hunger!" breaking into a delicatessen store. A volley of police bullets stopped them. In Berlin a group of Hitlerites were trapped by a surly crowd in a railway tunnel, had to be rescued by police. In Cologne and at Remscheid Communist crowds did not wait to be charged, attacked the police first. At Dusseldorf the police were bombarded with crockery and potted geraniums. In Berlin a Communist crowd toured the West End, smashed windows of the Japanese Club...
...Gott im Himmel!" he growled. "Everywhere the people of Manchuria are expecting Hell to break loose. The Chinese forces obviously are under foreign direction [presumably Russian]. Japanese occupation of the Chinese Eastern Railway right up to the Soviet border is inevitable...
...Canadian Pacific Railway Co....LL.D...
...Henry Thornton came forward to take full responsibility for the $110,000 suite, but there was the additional matter of the Premier's private railway car. Mr. Bennett had been using a wooden private car known as Old York, once used by Canada's Governor Generals. Ever thoughtful Sir Henry built a brand new private car of his own, offered to swap it for Old York. The swap was made. Explained Sir Henry...
After youthful wanderings his odyssey started at Irkutsk where he was employed as a locksmith on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A chance meeting with two political prisoners who had escaped across northern Siberia made up Author Welzl's mind. That spring he bought a horse and cart, made tracks for the Arctic Ocean alone. Too uneducated to follow maps he followed his nose, and the rivers flowing north...