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...Bishops considered Bishop Blake's defense in closed session and passed a resolution thanking him as well as Bishop John L. Nuelson of Zurich (in whose area Russia lies) and Bishop Anton Bast of Copenhagen for "fidelity and devotion " in carrying out "a delicate mission." No contribution to the fund of $51,000 was promised, however, nor was there any endorsement of the Living Church...
...Poincare, however, this fear is outweighed by the menace of a restored Germany on the French frontier. With her devastated area ever before her. France dare not relax her strangle hold on Germany until she has reduced her to a second rate power--unless and until the U. S. and Great Britain effectively guarantee her security. While the rest of the powers are slowly recognizing that it does not pay to be vindictive, France has throughout seen clearly that she cannot afford, as matters stand, to be anything else. And if I happened to be a Frenchman, I should doubtless...
...There are no large fan downers in the Philippines. The farms are small in size and nearly every man owns his plot of ground. The uncultivated area always gives the non-landowner the opportunity to become a squatter, and thus some day to own his won property. As a result of this condition, there are practically no poor in the agricultural districts of the islands. "We, indeed, have our rich, but they do not exist to the extent that they create the poor...
...went so far as to say that yesterday's cumulous clouds, which cut off the sun's rays, and which are caused by the cooling of the upper strata of air, would probably be absent today. As for a storm,--nearly out of the question. The low pressure storm area, which passed over Cambridge a few days ago, is now hundreds of miles off to the northeast, and will no longer affect this locality; the only low pressure area which will come to Boston is now over a thousand miles away in the northwest and cannot possibly reach Cambridge before...
Live-Stock. Total livestock in the devastated area in 1914, including sheep, goats, pigs, donkeys, mules, horses and cattle, 2,618,135 head; taken by the Germans, 2,418,758 head; in the area on July 1, 1923, 1,431,402 head...