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...year hard labor sentence for Private 6,346,392 (Paul Crouch) and one of 26 years for Private 6,112,765 (Walter Trumbull), stationed in Hawaii (TIME, Apr. 20), were reduced to three years and one year respectively...
Last week Bear Coat, better known as Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., took his grandchildren to Ringling's circus, at Washington. "You know I never miss the circus," said he to Mr. John Ringling (TIME, Apr. 6, THE THEATRE), whom he met at the Big Tent's door. He, his grandchildren and their maternal grandmother took seats in the third row not far from Mrs. Coolidge. Round the big ring slipped the introductory pageant of horses, elephants, clowns. The old man, Bear Coat, suddenly fell backward. A physician at hand caught him, carried him beneath...
...Premier Georges Clemenceau telegraphed Mme. Mangin: "He was a great soldier." Major General Robert Lee Bullard, onetime (Oct. 11, 1918-Apr. 15, 1919) Commander of the U. S. , Second Corps Area, cabled from his sick bed in Fort Totten Army Hospital: "Goodby, beloved comrade. Goodby, thou undaunted spirit." The General's Negro body servant walked alone and silently near his master's coffin. Many distinguished persons, including Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and Colonel H. H. Harjes of Morgan, Harjes et Cie., were, present...
...court martial sitting at Sofia to try persons accused of complicity in the Sveti Kral bomb outrage (TIME, Apr. 27, et seq.), sentenced eight men to death...
...bill asking for a million florin ($400,000) appropriation to finance the 1928 Olympic Games, introduced last month (TIME, Apr. 6), was defeated by 48 to 36 in the Lower House of the States-General (Parliament) at The Hague...