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...Obbia and Mijertins have been allowed to retain their de facto autonomy, but now Italian troops have "resumed" actual control of this territory. Fascist-censored cables report that, the natives "welcomed the Italians with benevolence and sympathy," and surrendered 2,000 rifles and much ammunition "without pulling a single trigger...
...sergeant Frederick George Lee of the Middlesex Hospital, London, is not what you would call a sensitive man. Kind and sympathetic, yes; but army life and hanging around a hospital are scarcely calculated to give one a hair-trigger psyche. And yet, Frederick George Lee has doctors puzzled. They admitted it last week...
General Jackson challenged Dickinson, who was a crack shot, because he had insulted Mrs. Jackson. They fought with pistols at eight yards. Dickinson fired first and wounded Jackson near the heart. Jackson took deliberate aim and pulled the trigger. Then it was not Dickinson's, but Jackson's, pistol that stopped at , half cock. Jackson, sorely wounded, cocked it again and shot Dickinson, mortally wounding...
Then Mr. Beebe sailed towards the Caribbean and, within the Leeward Islands, began to investigate Saba Bank in shallow waters 36 to 2,700 feet deep. A green and yellow octopus, an irridescent bronze colored fish found living inside a giant red sea-cucumber, butterfly fish, trigger fish and porcupine fish were procured as well as whole colonies of coral and sponges...
Garvie had been unable to find his own gun, had borrowed the stage carpenter's. He was not supposed to pull the trigger-but he did. It was a case of "So sorry, my mistake...