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The Story Behind
China's Heroism
TT is always rash to prophesy; but intrepidity won; the enemy picked
up its skirts and ran,
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for once I will take the risk. This is the most exciting, rare, timely and important book published this year: and it will probably remain so for a long time to conie,
Edgar Snow has done wht по other living man has ever done; he has raised the curtain on one the last great mysteries of the modern world; and has answered every ques tion that the inquiring mind had ever wanted to know about it.
And a great many more as well, Ilere, in three dimensions, Is Soviet China; here for the first time are its leaders, in particular Mao Tse-tung. Its Stalin; here is the way of its peoples life, their enthusiasms, their fortitude, their integrity and, above all, their bravery.
That episode is a symbol of the incredible difficulties which Sovict China has hind to face and conquer. It has conquered; it has changed the history of China and perhaps, of the human race,
But what, above all, shines from this book is a bravery that may have been matched in this world, but has certainly never been exceeded.
PHILIP JORDAN.
"Red Star Over China." Edgar Snow. Gollancz. 18.
MOSCOW BAN ON
VODKA
It is an eple story. Five times TOO MUCH DRINKING
Chiang Kai-sjek hurled his Prussian trained armies against the Reds, five times be announced their annihilation to the world; five times he fled.
All the might of Nanking, blessed by the Great Powers of the world, never smashed an army that began with 200 captured rifles; grow to 180,000 trained men; was decimated; marched over 3,000 miles to preserve its Independence; was hailed deliverer wherever it went; and had an average Individual age of about. 20.
Few of the epic marches of his tory can compare with that migration of a whole people from Kiangs), in the south, by way of Kweichow, and Yunnan to Sheast,
the horti
where the Red, capital now is
Swing
BY YOUNG PERSONS
Moscow.
More than 50 bars near Moscow's university buildings and secondary schools have been clased by a decree which is aimed at stopping drinking by young people.
The sale of alcohol has been pro- hibited in a factory dining-rooms and on factory premises. It has also been banned. In 34 foodshops, 29 restaur- along the nnis and cafes-mostly main streets and in 10 murket ten rooms for peasants.
Vodica and other alcoliolic drinks are to be sold in future only by the bottle and not by the glass. Lening red gave Moscow the lead in these masures against the growing drunkenness and rowdyism.
2,700 MILES CYCLE RIDE
Sydney.
It is a tale of perpetuni wonder. Its high light was the crossing of the River Tatu in the face of enemy machine-guns. Picture It.
The Australian road cyclist, above a
a gorge, 100 yards wide, with Hubert Opperman, who. lang the river crashing over rocks far be-tablished many records in Britain low, is a chain bridge built centuries and France, is expected here from. ago. Its floor boarding had been Fremantle, Western Australia, on destroyed; only chaitis remained, Thursday. To-night lic reached across which, if they would reach the Melbourne. other skie men had to wing like monkeys.
They had to Cross; upon the success of that manoeuvre depended perhaps the fate of Sovlet China. So men, in the face of those machine- guns, swung out over the river. Many of the first volunteers never got across, but dropped, ene by one. into the river. In the end, however.
Opperman bas already covered 2,180 miles in 11 days, 4 hours, 35 minutes, and is nearly four days ahead of the existing record held by W. Reed, of Perth." The total dis- tance he will cover is approximately 2,700 miles.
47 Years Public Service.- Mr. M. Shepherd to-day retired from the Secretaryship of the Department of Defence after 47 years in the public service.
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Mother-how many of you are 100% fit
It is to Mothers that Nature looks most hopefully for Fitter Families. They can do so much to ensure that everyone in their care is 100% fit.
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You know, mother, that the very foundation of health is correct nourishment. You know, too, that the dietary must provide every nutritive element for building up the entire physical and nervous systems. How can you make sure of this?
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