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In vain the State Department and the Spokesman of the White House proclaimed that so far as they knew General Pershing would return to Tacna-Arica when he regained his health, and that the President would certainly not cease to mediate between Chile and Peru. The rumor persisted that General...
Cables carried the news from Madras. The Theosophical Society had opened the celebration of its 50th anniversary. To greet the aged President Annie Besant was a sufficiently grand collection of 5,000 delegates of 37 nationalities. But there were no further details concerning the "reincarnation of Christ in the person...
London cables last week left U. S. drys jubilant and wets glum. They reported Sir Broderick Cecil Hartwell, "rum-running baronet," as listed in the Official Gazette for bankruptcy.
Japanese Intervention. From Tokyo a cold decisive message clicked out over the cables: "By order of General M. Kawai, Chief of the Japanese General Staff, and with the consent of the Prince Regent of Japan and Premier Kato, 3,500 Japanese troops have been despatched to Mukden, [capital of the...
Cables from Syria announced that the Jebel Druz Sultan, El Atrash, has resorted to the last extremity of resistance against the French by proclaiming a holy war. After issuing an order prohibiting the sowing of winter grain by men between 20 and 60 years of age, El Atrash called an...