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Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin returned to Chungking last week from a tour of the stricken areas. In Loyang he saw bundles of leaves being sold to refugees for food, a dollar a bunch. Children's bellies were bloated and distended with such Foodstuffs. Sometimes starving families collect all remnants of food in their homes, eat their last meal and then commit suicide. While the Bishop was visiting one village, a farmer gathered his family round him, fed them their last full meal and then told them he had poisoned the food they had just eaten...
...trail of the old Peking-Hankow railway. The Government has placed a free train daily for refugee disposal along the Lunghai railway, which is carrying out 1,500 people every 24 hours. But the jammed cars, stuffed with clinging, clambering people, are evacuating only a portion of the stricken hordes. Four or five thousand people daily are setting out on the westward march along the line...
...whether the alleged rape had happened with her consent: "With my consent? Why, of course with my consent." Said District Attorney Dockweiler: "It doesn't matter whether she consented to these acts or not. She's under age. That's statutory rape under California law." Hatless, stricken Errol Flynn denied the story said: "I'm bewildered. I can't understand it. I hardly touched the girl." Said Sportsman McEvoy: "He was hardly out of my sight the whole evening...
...faced, bullnecked, roughshod William L. Ayers, managing editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce (circ. 24,000), knew the time had come. Draft-stricken, he was going to have to hire women. He was going to have to hire women copyreaders...
...exactly. They left nothing for the audience to supply. The precise representation of concrete things became a fetish. Unfortunately their holy war was successful; Realism has become the gospel of the American theatre, virtually without a single infidel to preach against it. The result: audiences have become mentally poverty-stricken. They have been taught to believe what they see, and only what they see. If they do not see it or have not seen it, it cannot exist. Imagination is employed only for the uses of obscenity...