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...member of the expedition headed by Dr. R. P. Strong '16 of the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Allen is the only member of the expedition which left last May, who has yet returned. The other members of the party are making their way across the continent to the East Coast. When last heard from they were in the Congo...
...craft, and his 4,680 U. S. marines were policing Nicaragua in such a manner that President Adolfo Diáz (recognized by the U. S.) was safe in his capital, Managua, while President Sacasa was being starved out for want of supplies on the West Coast. President Diaz, presumably advised by Admiral Latimer, cabled a long peace plea to the U. S. public, proposing that his regime be maintained until 1928, and that an election then be held under U. S. supervision...
...Epidemiologists insist that world-wide plagues of disease begin in Asia and then work towards Europe and the Americas. So the League of Nations has placed health watchers in the principal Asiatic coast cities to report by wireless the local health status. These reports are compiled and then relayed to worried, watchful Western officials. But this influenza spread caught the League unawares by starting, apparently, in Spain, just as did the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Last week the League relayed wireless health reports of European, as well as of Occidental countries...
...Indisputable evidence exists that the broad outlines of the Italo-Albanian treaty were drawn by these two statesmen [Premier Mussolini and the British Foreign Seccretary Sir Austen Chamberlain] during their famous meeting on Chamberlain's yacht* off the Italian coast at Leghorn in early October" (TIME, Oct. 11). 2) The previous British policy of upholding Albanian independence was scrapped as long ago as last June, when the British Minister to Albania, William O'Reilly, and Mr. Robert Parr, chargé d'affaires for many years, were both recalled from Albania and succeeded by the present Minister, William Seeds. 3) The Italian...
Shrewd observers noted that this ridiculously large naval concentration can be moved within 24 hours to a point off the Mexican coast, should the Mexican Government fulfill its announced determination to seize certain U. S. oil lands in Mexico as "forfeited" under the new Mexican oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926). Thus the U. S. forces sent to Nicaragua last week constitute a two-edged threat...