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Show B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage Nazi occupation authorities in Holland Hol-land have even cut the Dutch horse-meat horse-meat ration one-third. The weekly ' meat ration coupons, which' used to be good for 150 grams of horsemeat, now are good for only 100 grams, or about two ounces, according to a report re-port published in a German language daily in Holland. The cut means a 1 great deal to the Dutch, whose liv- i ing standards have lowered. i I ' ' Government payments by check ! will soon be at a rate of more than 300,000,000 a year, or an average of i a million checks each working day, j W. A. Julian, treasurer of the United Unit-ed States, reports. ! ; Bayonet warfare has proved so ; ! . distasteful to the Japanese that at ! I one point in the fighting on New ' Guinea, panic-stricken enemy troops ' chose to leap off a 150-foot cliff 1 rather than face the bayonets of Australian infantrymen, the Melbourne Mel-bourne rndio said. Collecting spider web for precision sighting instruments is one of the duties performed by women in the British Auxiliary Territorial service. Because corn fields are excellent hide-outs for partisans, the Croat minister for the interior has ordered all farmers to cut their fields by the end of this month. If they are not cut by then, they will be burned. Only one out of every ten Americans Amer-icans thinks there's no chance at all for a union of nations to prevent wars in the future, according to a survey made by the National Opinion Research Center, University of Denver. Den-ver. Twice as many Chinese students are enrolled in college and technical schools as at the outbreak of the war, according to the Chungking radio ra-dio which says there are now 63,605 students compared with 31,188 at the beginning of the war. |