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With so many large, well armed and variously belligerent forces in the Peking-Tientsin area, alarm was general lest the most serious disorders if not battles should ensue. In the circumstances, it was permissible to ask hourly, last week, "Peking, Peking, who's got Peking?" Amid extreme crisis, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek issued at Nanking an astounding communique: "The military phase of the Nationalist movement has been completed, rendering unnecessary further warfare. The office of Generalissimo is automatically terminated. The military council of the Nationalist government hereafter will administer all military affairs." In conclusion Chiang said that he will...
...other reason for Chiang's resignation. They noted that it was followed immediately by the appointment of Nationalist Foreign Minister of Dr. C. J. Wang-a henchman of Feng Yu-hsiang. They deemed the notorious "Christian" dangerously in the ascendant, both at Nanking and in the Peking-Tientsin area...
Invented: a camera which will operate at an altitude of more than 30,000 feet, penetrating hazes and photographing in a single exposure an area of over four square miles, automatically timed and operated, electrically heated to prevent freezing, making an exposure nine by eighteen inches in size...
...York's Rochester is a comfortable city. Its population, about 325,000, is not too large for its ample area; it is pleasantly near Lake Ontario; it typifies much of the sturdy Republicanism, the rural conservatism, which mark upstate New York. If it is a question of noted sons, Minnesota's tiny Rochester may boast her famed surgeons, the brothers Mayo, but New York's Rochester answers with Cameraman George Eastman and is content. Good music and much education contribute to its civic culture; civic cleanliness is upheld by the barbers and laundrymen, who set aside...
Approximately 18,000 square yards of earth will have to be removed before the construction work can get under way. An area almost twice that of the Langdell Hall as it now stands will be dug to a depth of between 9 and 16 feet...