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...Tsinan, last week that prosperous Chinese families were fleeing with their household goods by rail to the port of Tsingtao. Farther inland General Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province, was reported to have ordered the execution of his subordinate General Li Fu-ying, Commander of the 61st Chinese National Division, for abandoning Tatungfu to the Japanese without a fight after being ordered to hold it at all costs. Under terrific Japanese bombing was Governor Yen's capital Taiyuan. In Suiyuan Province still farther inland winter has already come, but Mongolian troops allied with the Japanese last...
...Egypt and nine other Egyptian delegates marched down the aisle of the League of Nations' new Geneva palace last week to bow stiffly before Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras, temporary President of the League Assembly. The occasion was the formal admission of Egypt as the 61st nation to become a full-fledged member of the League. Most graceful of the 20 speeches of welcome came from Britain's dandified Anthony Eden...
...Brearley moved to a new home on Park Avenue at 61st Street. Then began the parade of Brearley fathers marching their Brearley daughters to school before proceeding to business. Girls who arrived by automobile were thought pretentious. The parade stopped in 1929 when Brearley built and moved again, this time to a sumptuous ten-story structure overlooking the East River at 83rd Street...
Longtime dream of Atlantic City's Mayor Harry Bacharach has been a new railroad station for "America's Playground." Last week, on his 61st birthday, Mayor Bacharach's dream came true. To the dedication exercises of the resort's new $250,000 Union Station went Governor Arthur Harry Moore, Vice President Martin Withington Clement of Pennsylvania Railroad and many a cheering Atlantic Citizen. The new station has eight loading platforms three blocks long, can handle 10,000 visitors at once. Eliminated are two old railroad stations, twelve grade crossings...
...however, get to France during the World War. For a time that omission looked as if it might spoil his chances of gaining the post that is every Marine officer's ambition, Commandant of the Corps. And last November when Major General John Henry Russell celebrated his 61st birthday the chance became slimmer, for compulsory retirement looms for officers at 64. As of March 1. however, compulsory retirement claims Ben H. Fuller. Last week President Roosevelt named John Henry Russell, to his surprise and joy, to take command of all U. S. Marines...