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...bedlam, streaking the evening sky with tracer bullets. Japanese aircraft, zooming up from a field the Chinese were bombing, got busy in mad efforts to save themselves and retaliate with as much damage to Chinese as possible, proceeded to fly over the neutral foreigners in the International Settlement with full cargoes of bombs, released these at speed over the Settlement, aimed them, of course, to fall in a slanting trajectory on Chinese positions a few yards outside...
...Shrapnel Swing." In San Francisco arrived last week Shanghai's most exuberant refugee, Miss Therese Rudolph, who says she went unscathed through the first Japanese bombing of the International Settlement (TIME, Aug. 23), has now translated the emotions she experienced into a hot-cha-cha routine, the "Shrapnel Swing" (see cut). In Shanghai last week the 2,527th case of cholera was certified in the International Settlement alone, with 563 victims of cholera dead and doctors vaccinating night and day in efforts to head off an epidemic of smallpox. Conditions were so appalling that Japanese insisted on sterilizing...
...were sincerely rejoiced that it was found possible to come to an agreement with the Italian Government as to the patrolling of the Mediterranean by French, Italian and British warships [TIME, Oct. 4]. If we could once make real progress in the settlement of the Spanish problem, the way would be open to those conversations which formed the subject of the recent correspondence between Signor Mussolini and myself...
With more than 100 of last year's members already assigned positions in settlement houses, Phillips Brooks House recruit agents await an influx of over 100 new aspirants for social service work early this week...
...settlement houses sprinkled in Greater Boston and Cambridge recruits are needed to coach athletics, hobby groups and debating societies. Basketball, wrestling, tumbling, and boy scout work have been popular in the past...