[Homer_J_Simpson]

There were no suggestions for replacement tags, so Real Time + 70 Years it remains. Subject closed.

It is learned that Great Britain is likely to take the problem up with Mussolini in Rome.

Do ya think?

"I say, old chap, this is a bit awkward, but the P.M. was rather hoping we could convince you to have your chaps stop dropping bombs on our ships in port. Feels it’s not the sort of things allies do to one another, if you follow his reasoning. What with certain segments of the public already a bit put out over our new alliance." /bad upper-class British accent.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Here is the weekly update on the pennant race. Cleveland and the New York Baseball Giants are still hot, but the Yankees and Cubbies are close behind. Could this be the year of the Cubs? How did the league manage to complete a whole season without any air travel? Get a map of the eastern U.S. and draw a line through the following cities. Boston-Detroit-Chicago-St. Louis-Washington-Boston again. Besides going through a majority of the Major League cities, the circle encloses all the rest. It looks to me like the longest train trip would be Boston-St. Louis. Not bad if the trip includes two or three other stands along the way. Major League Baseball

American League

……………………..Won…Lost…Percentage………Games Behind
Cleve………………...29……15…….659………………….-
N. Y. ………………..24……19…….558………………….4 1/2
Boston……………….24……19........558………………….4 1/2
Wash………………...26……22…….542………………….5
Detroit ………………22……23…….489………………….7 1/2
Chic………………….16……23….....410…………………10 1/2
Phila………………….17……25…….405…………………11
St. L………………….14……26…….350………………...13

National League

……………………..Won…Lost…Percentage………Games Behind
N. Y…………………28……16…….636……………………-
Chic………………….29……18…….617……………………1/2
Boston ………………21……18…….538………………… 4 1/2
Cincin……………….23…….20….....535………………….4 1/2
Pitts………………….21…….20……512………………….5 1/2
St. L…………………18…….24…….429………………….9
Bklyn………………..20…….27…….426………………….9 1/2
Phila…………………11…….28…….282…………………14 1/2

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[dfwgator]

A lone plane from Spain flew over French territory today, circling the harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz in the third aerial invasion of France from Spain within the past week

Five O'Clock Carlos?

[CougarGA7]

As I was saying last week the Henan province's capital had fallen on June 6th and things were looking desperate for the Nationalist Chinese. I also said there was another interesting event that I was saving for today.

Quoted from Henan Campaign

Having just lost Kaifeng, the Chinese were desperate to slow the Japanese advance. The Japanese now threatened Zhengzhou, an important rail junction linking major cities of Wuhan and Xi'an. Chiang Kaishek and his advisors decided to use the force of nature to stop the Japanese. In the morning of 9 Jun 1938, dikes at Huayuankou were opened. Water of the Yellow River flooded out rapidly, creating a natural barrier between the Japanese and the Chinese, but it also gave residents no time to evacuate the area at all, if they knew to evacuate at all, that is. To ensure no intelligence leaked to the Japanese side to prepare to deal with the flooding, it was decided that the Chinese civilians were not to be warned. Somewhere between 500,000 and 900,000 lives were lost as a result of the flooding, and 54,000 km² of land destroyed, containing millions of homes. The flood waters eventually flowed into the Chia-lu and Huai Rivers, forever changing the course of the Yellow River. What the flood achieved was mediocre at best, slowing Japanese military and logistical movements, but the obstacles were overcome rather quickly.

This ranks 3rd on the list of all times worse floods based on death toll.

[PAR35]

The communists were probably being supplied through the British owned port. The British shouldn’t have been whining.