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...fifth owner of the Chester Concession for the interior development of Turkey, recently arrived in Paris from Anatolia, main Turkish province in Asia Minor. He denied rumors that the Turkish Government had offered the Concession to the German Stinnes over the heads of the Ottoman-American Development Co., the concern which holds the Chester Concession. He stated, as proof to the contrary, that materials were in the course of shipment to Turkey; that engineers on the spot " were working under extra pressure to make up for the regrettable delays arising from the internal controversies which have now ended; " that "full...
...George Washington Goethals (Panama Canal constructor), Frederick S. Blackall, F. B. Potter, H. C. Sheridan, A. S. Robert severed their connection with the Chester Concession. Commander Arthur Chester, son of Admiral Chester who obtained the concession which bears his name from the Turkish Government, repudiated the management of the concern and said that the " false and misleading statements made by Colonel Clayton-Kennedy and his associates" were bringing ruin upon the project. The dispute arose because the directors could not agree as to the best methods of financing the Concession...
France was at loggerheads with the Chinese Government over the latter's inability to make gold payments in accordance with the Boxer* indemnity. This state of affairs has caused the keenest concern to the other Powers interested in China, as they would have to join France in order to safeguard their protocol rights, or risk losing these rights by adhering to the Chinese Policies Treaty, one of the Washington treaties as yet unratified by France...
...rearranging a set of pegs. The child can take a set of notes written out and match the successive notes with notes marked on pegs. These pegs he places one after another in a slot in the box. The instrument then plays the melody. The child has only to concern himself with the time, the length of the notes. From the manipulation of this toy a considerable part of the rudiments of music can be learned...
Famous Players, the largest motion picture concern in the world, will suspend production for a number of months. Their representatives assure the world at-large, however, that they have a vast supply of undisclosed photography in their possession. Heading their list is The Ten Commandments, a $2,000,000 production which, they trust, will follow their The Covered Wagon as the most popular film in the world. The prologue shows the original ten in process of discovery by Moses; later the film discusses their application in modern life...