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...rail, road or telephone ceased to exist; and only one foreign cable wire was in operation. Throughout the week some thousands of more or less embattled Chinese soldiers in the vicinity of Peking continued respectful, even obliging, toward those foreigners who had occasion to pass through the civil war area...
...Santiago, Chile, the local press succeeded in obtaining the text of U.S. Secretary of State Kellogg's secret proposal for compromise between Chile and Peru as to what shall be done with the disputed area of Tacna-Arica, claimed by both for half a century (TIME, April 19 et ante). The Text: "The Secretary of State has the honor to suggest that in the interest of international peace and a cordial rapprochement between the parties [Chile and Peru], they consider the advisability of a mutual and joint sacrifice whereby either...
Hawaii, consisting of nine principal islands with a total area of 6,449 square miles and a population of 255,000, is a territory. For nearly five years Wallace R. Farrington has been governor. His most notable utterance is: "The eventual destiny of Hawaii is to enter the family of states with the full rights of statehood." Two thousand miles from San Francisco, 4,600 from Panama, 4,300 from Manila, 3,400 from Yokohama, these islands are the "cross roads of the Pacific." Sugar is the leading industry...
...decorations appearing upon the pottery found in the ruins of this valley are peculiar to this area. While numerous geometic designs appear, there are in addition many well-drawn figures of birds, quadrupeds, fishes, and reptiles; also representations of the human figure, shown singly of interesting groups...
...Tampa and the Modoc take turns patrolling the danger area, where the warm Gulf currents meet the Arctic flows at the "cold wall." Their duties are to spot the huge chunks of ice by their own lookouts or from the wire-lessed reports of other ships, to destroy such bergs by explosives if possible, otherwise to keep them ever in sight, reporting twice a day their whereabouts to ships which might be struck and to the U. S. hydrographic office at Washington. Fogs and other weather conditions too are radioed, and on this news the weather department partly bases...