England: Nazi board games sale
An auction house in England plans to sell board games this week that German children played during World War II, winning points by destroying British cities and ships. In one of the 1940s games, battleships could travel to Britain and back, blowing up Allied ships and targets in the North Sea. In a pinball-style game called Bombers Over England, German children scored 100 points by, for example, destroying London or the British submarine base at Scapa Flow, Scotland. The games are to be sold Thursday at Mullock’s auctioneers in Ludlow, central England.
Peru: Little hope for survivors
Rescuers gave up hope of finding any more survivors and concentrated Monday on clearing tons of rubble from the streets of Pisco, leveled by a magnitude-8 quake on Wednesday that killed at least 540 people.
China: Miner relatives’ outburst
A quick outburst of violence by relatives of 172 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine in the eastern province of Shandong brought a tearful promise of Chinese government action Monday, even as state media said the miners’ chances of surviving the Friday flood were dwindling. Two brothers of a missing miner and his grown son, frustrated that an earlier request for a briefing had not been met, and two other men smashed a reception window and display cases at a company offices with wooden sticks. They then rushed around the corner into the sprawling Huayuan Mining Co. compound, followed by five other relatives.
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