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...white Moon Mountains. Black buck Negroes and black buxom Negresses prostrated themselves, as was fitting, before His Majesty Albert I, King of the Belgians and of Belgian Congo Blackamoors-and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The white Sovereigns, complacent, were on tour through their Afric domains, which are larger in area than all Western Europe and contain almost as many Blackamoors as does...
Plattsburgh Barracks, N. Y., have been teeming for several weeks with students at the Citizens Military Training Camps of the Second Corps Area...
Retired. Sergeant Bertram Follinsby, 67, regimental quartermaster sergeant of the 2nd Corps Area at Governors Island, N. Y.; after 46 years' service in the U. S. Army. His first decoration was pinned upon him after the Indian campaign of 1882-83; his last, the Victory Medal, after the World...
Soon the new Ruler of an area larger than France and Italy together and lying just north of China proper, voiced a program for the future with virile firmness: "I want our people to concentrate on the development of Manchuria and look to ourselves, not outward, for development. There is no need of our seeking to expand now or encroach on other parts of China...
Died. Bishop Luther Barton Wilson, 71, for 16 years (until retiring last month) Bishop of the New York Area of the Methodist Episcopal Church, President of the Board of Foreign Missions, onetime (1901-21) president Anti-Saloon League; of heart disease; in Baltimore...