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...Kwangsi, a South China province neighboring Canton, who patched up his long-standing quarrel with the Generalissimo when hostilities started eleven months ago. In the tortuous back-stepping before the Japanese the Generalissimo has repeatedly pulled his own crack German-trained divisions from the front lines first, leaving the raw, ill-equipped mass of his army, largely composed of provincial troops, to cover the retreat. This, coupled with Chiang's hesitancy in sending the Chinese Air Force, concentrated at Hankow, to the aid of Canton, led to persistent reports last week that General Li Tsung-jen would withdraw...
...imports have exceeded her exports. During the first four months of 1938, Austria's adverse balance was $7,600,000, an almost insurmountable addition to Germany's own $28,400,000 adverse balance for the same period. According to League figures, Germany's net imports of raw and semi-raw materials totaled 1,731,000 metric tons (a metric ton is 2,204.6 pounds) in 1936; Austria's 1,867.000. In foodstuffs and livestock for the same year, Germany imported 2,168,000 metric tons more than she sold abroad, and Austria 1,121,000 more...
Little short of incredible were figures presented to the United States Senate yesterday demonstrating Japan's dependence upon America for the raw materials of war. From us she buys 60 per cent of her oil, 90 per cent of her copper, 91 per cent of her automobiles and parts, more than 40 per cent of her pig iron, and nearly 50 per cent of her machinery and engines. In the light of our sanctimonious concern for the welfare of the Chinese, these facts are amazing indeed...
...River from Shawneetown. When it became obvious that the Ohio would spill over Shawneetown's flood wall, Shawneetown's residents were evacuated to Indiana and Kentucky on orders received over Ham Anderson's radio. Evacuation was effected without loss of a single life. And after four raw, wet, sleepless days and nights, Ham Anderson went home...
...bright green, oblong fruit which grows on small evergreen trees, citron uncooked is about as unpalatable as raw fowl; its pulp is bitter, its rind thick and tough. After being soaked in brine and cooked in syrup, however, it has a sugary quality much like other candied fruit. Some 5,000,000 lb. of citron are used annually in U. S. fruitcakes, candies and pastries, yet the fruit has never been produced in quantities in the U. S.; most of it comes from Sicily, Italy, the West Indies...