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...equal force, equal truth and equal sincerity to every other commonwealth of the empire, and it is not without significance that, quite naturally, President Harding speaking to Canada referred to England and America as 'your mother country across the sea and your sister country across the hardly visible border...
...American forces on the Rhine frontier before their withdrawal two years ago, and later became the United States representative on the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission. He saw active service in the St. Mihael and Argonne offensives during the war, and before our participation was on the Mexican border with General Pershing. When Pershing, at the bead of an expeditionary force, made an incursion into Mexican territory in 1916, General Allen was commander of the cavalry section of this force...
...facilitate disposal of the wheat surplus abroad; 2) that freight rates on coal to Northeastern states and coal destined for Canada be equalized. (The President understood that coal shipped to Canada paid less freight charge than coal shipped to cities in this country, but immediately adjoining the Canadian border.) Mr. Rea left the conference without public comment. But other railroad officials were less reticent. They declared that freight rates on wheat for export are already less than on wheat for domestic use. Rates per hundredweight on shipments from Chicago to the Atlantic seaboard are 30? for domestic consumption...
Rhineland Republic. An independent Rhineland Separatist revolt, under the leadership of Herr Leo Deckers and Dr. Guthard, broke out at Aix-la-Chapelle on the Belgian border and the existence of a Rhineland Republic was promulgated after the city had quietly submitted to Separatist troops. The towns of Gladbach, Crefeld, Jülich, Cleve, Duren, Montjoie and Erkelenny were then occupied with more or less resistance. The movement was not successful at Mainz, Rheydt, Coblenz, Triel/ Wanne. The situation was very confused and the news was consequently unreliable. London opinion had it that the movement would not succeed...
Thomas E. Duffy, American chemical engineer, prospecting in the desert of northern Chile, near the Peruvian border, found a great collection of Indian relics in tombs, including beautiful wood and stone carvings, statues of an unknown heavy wood, turquoise jewelry, hundreds of mummified bodies. Experts of the Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, dated them provisionally...