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...India, having traveled third class under his favorite alias, "Private Shaw." In the House of Commons the Government parried questions as to whether Colonel Lawrence had fomented the revolt against King Amanullah of Afghanistan (TIME, Jan. 28). Admissions that he had been stationed at Peshawar, India, on the Afghan border, were coupled with the lame assertion that "Lawrence was granted no leave of absence from his duties as a private in the Royal Air Force." As everyone knows, British R. A. F. planes are constantly operating over Afghanistan...
...cannot appropriation be made subject to such distribution as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine after thorough investigation; part for Coast Guard, part for customs, part especially for Canadian border; part for doubling or trebling present field force, increasing salaries to induce higher type men to apply for this responsible and hazardous work; part for more thorough, stringent surveillance of breweries and distilleries to prevent illegal distribution of high-powered beer and diversion of industrial alcohol; part for intensive, nation-wide education campaign, employing best talent to prepare accurate, striking posters and circulars emphasizing danger to individuals...
Thus it appeared that some sort of working arrangement had been secured to keep boxing, temporarily at least, in expensive arenas or stadiums and out of barges and border towns where it had been when Rickard began to operate...
...Howe, was Hon. Treasurer of the Allied Forces in wartime, 1914-1915; descendant of General Howe of American Revolutionary fame; onetime Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria; and Lord Chamberlain tc Queen Alexandra. Charles John Perceval. 70, ninth Earl of Egmont, had been merchant mariner, mounted policeman in Natal, border customer in Zululand...
...autumn night two years ago, a band of Apaches came down from the mountains, rode across the border to Douglas, Ariz., attacked the ranch of Francisco Fimores, scalped his wife and took his son with them when they rode away. Last week, believing that the Apaches were raising his son as a member of their tribe, Francisco Fimores led forty riders across the border, up the mountain trails to find the Apaches, fight them, and rescue...