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Subsequent cables informed the world that Wales is now learning to play the "bandoleon." Again cronies of the Prince supplied lacking data: "He used to play the ukulele; now he prefers the bandoleon. It's an educated sort of concertina-howls worse than a saxophone."
Cables from various impartial witnesses, the accounts of fleeing refugees, and the official reports of foreign consuls stationed in Damascus, all placed an utterly different face upon the matter.
Cables announced that when the purchase is completed the documents will be deposited at Seville. In 1927 they will be exhibited publicly at the great International Exposition which is to take place that year in Spain.
When Nicholas toppled from the most absolute of Christian thrones, the obscure private rallied some of his disbanded Cossack comrades about him, cajoled and coerced them into a little army. By the example of his extraordinary personal bravery, he spurred them on to acts of organized plunder which enabled him...
At Teheran, the Persian Assembly, or "Majlis," adopted a resolution deposing the present Kajar dynasty "for the sake of the national welfare," by a vote of 80 to 5. The resolution "entrusted the Government to Reza Khan"- to exactly what extent is not known. Cables report that he has assumed...