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...Adherents of the Nationalists (Cantonese) mutinied aboard two Chinese gunboats in Shanghai harbor last week, and began firing one-and-one-half-inch shells into the French concession at Shanghai. The firing soon ceased without doing any great damage and appeared to have been totally irresponsible...
...ship bound for Boston steamed into port. Leys was determined to board it for the homeward trip. He got a job helping to unload, and found that his chances of shipping aboard the vessel were very slender, as it already had one man, a stowaway, in irons to prevent his slipping ashore. There was nothing to do but wait for the next ship, while Plumer, wherever he might have been, made his way toward the goal...
...Foreign Office. So does Dr. Gessler, Minister of Defense since 1920, a prodigious record. It is these statesmen of the middle parties, the "Little Coalition" men, who have wrought the ship of the Republic so strong that last week the Nationalists saw no option but to climb aboard...
...lines. Nor is it a philosopher's diary, but the blunt journal of a rather tough, inarticulate "war bird." He "laughs off" the emotion stirred in him by a full moon at sea, by guessing he needs "a little loving" and wondering about the trained nurses aboard. He records the deaths of comrades with as little flourish as he accords their myriad fly-by-night amours. "If these boys can fly two-bladers like they can fly four-posters there'll be a shortage of Huns before long." The irony of Death in a British training camp bears...
...Edged Threat. Aboard his flagship, the Rochester, anchored off Puerto Cabezas, Rear Admiral Latimer calmly directed the marines, landed recently (TIME, Jan. 3) as they maintained "a neutral zone to protect American lives" in such a way as to cut off the Liberal adherents of President? Juan Sacasa from their chief base. Meanwhile President* Adolfo Diaz welcomed another detachment of U. S. marines which arrived "to protect the U. S. Legation" at Managua, Capital of Nicaragua...