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Palestine is far from the only organized settlement of Jewish refugees, although it is by far the most costly and troublesome. A small settlement exists in The Netherlands on land reclaimed from the Zuider Zee. There are others in Czechoslovakia, Russia, South America. Most have followed Palestine in having friction with the previous inhabitants. From Costa Rica last week came word that Refugee Economic Corp. of Manhattan has purchased for a reputed $1 an acre the 50,000-acre Tenorio estate in Guanacosti Province to become a Jewish community where refugees from Nazi Germany may enjoy peace and raise soya...
Ninety per cent of all news from China is piped to the world through Shanghai. Ninety per cent of all newshawks in China get most of their facts and write most of their stories in the lounges and bars of the three big hotels along the International Settlement's Bund: the Palace and Cathay hotels and across the Garden Bridge, the Astor House...
...Northrop planes. ... It is officially confirmed that both pilots were wounded and that [antiaircraft shots] damaged the bomb racks, which caused the bombs to break loose. Both wounded pilots are in Shanghai hospitals. It is incredible that the belief exists in some places that China deliberately bombed the International Settlement. What...
...bombing of the International Settlement was intentional, a good many oldtime residents thought that they knew one explanation: Japan by treaty rights is a member of the International Settlement at Shanghai, whose neutrality is theoreti cally protected by the guns of half-a-dozen foreign powers. During the 1932 siege Japanese warships would calmly attack Chinese Shanghai, then calmly claim sanctuary in the International Settlement, using it as a base and openly landing troops there. China is a bigger, stronger country than she was five years ago and there were signs aplenty last week that she was in no mood...
...Copenhagen in 1931, Trapezist Codona was severely injured by a fall during a performance of his famed triple somersault in Philadelphia. Despondent over his inability to perform professionally, he last week went to confer with Mrs. Codona, from whom he had been separated for a year, about a divorce settlement. When the conference ended, Trapezist Codona asked to be left alone with his wife, drew a gun, shot her four times, put a fifth bullet through his own head...