All About Russia Warn reference to the "purges" still going on in Soviet Russia, George Ryan, in the Boston "Herald," perpetrates a good one:—
"The current situation in Russia might be summarized by a paraphrase of an quip: "He's a great friend of Stalin's, wasn't About This "War" Again In ParentHEsIS notes with some dismay the statement by a Chinese official to the effect that the Chinese armies would soon be back again round Shanghai.
We hate to appear inhospitable but we do hope that the Chinese will postpone their proposed visit, for a time at least, This War Reporting Descrrsine the shooting down of an aeroplane at Nanking a news agency reports:—
"One of the ill-fated planes which received a direct hit from anti-aircraft shells came down in flames in clear view of hundreds of onlookers."
It is one of the more remarkable facts about anti-aircraft shooting that all hits have to be there is no chance of a "cannon off the The Newer Aeroplane Tuen another news agency, which really ought to know better, has found è new war machine:—
"A Japanese bomber, hit by anti-aircraft fire lit by orange flames, slowly floating downward, exploding in mid-air, breaking instantly into three flaming rockets, plunging to the ground and leaving behind three dense columns of smoke, formed the climax of to-day's Japanese air-raid on the Chinese capital."
Aeroplanes which slowly float downwards are of the lighter than air variety, and are quite the latest development in aviation. We don't think!
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