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...occupied with tourists & immigrants as other consuls general, may devote much time to keeping peace among the Tongs. Signer of the pact for the Hip Sing Tong was its President, Author Eng Ying ("Eddie") Gong (TIME, June 2). When the six leaders had signed it, scribes translated the document into brushstrokes on cerise paper, sent it to every U. S. Chinatown, proclaiming Consul Tow and Commissioner Mulrooney overlords of all U. S. Chinese...
...Promptly the Soviet Government replied by wire that the essence of the concession had been that both parties must continue to play their roles under the document until released from this obligation by some act of the Arbitral Board. Since Lena had started to withdraw before the Board met she had, declared the Soviet telegram, completely ruptured and destroyed the concession agreement including of course its machinery of arbitration. Therefore the Arbitral Board had become a nullity, and as it had ceased to exist the Soviet Government could not and would not send any representative to sit with Dr. Stutzer...
...This is a document the importance of which will escape nobody," wrote the editor solemnly. "It needs no emphasis, but it inspires serious reflections...
...since 1924 had the Reglamento of the arena, instigated by Primo de Rivera, been revised. Last week, rejoicing was general throughout Spain when the committee finished, King Alfonso signed and the Gaceta Oficial published verbatim the taurine code revised, a document longer (ten quarter newspaper pages) than the text of the London Naval Treaty. Rejoicing was great, for just as cockfighting was resumed after the fall of strict Dictator Primo, so it was seen that Spain's bull- killing will regain a touch of ferocious color which "humane" Primo forbade. Permitted once more are the banderillas de fuego...
...Confession, a comparatively short document, would just fill nine pages of TIME. In 21 chapters it presented Protestant doctrines derived directly from Scriptures. In seven more articles the Confessors pointed out what Lutherans call "the dreadful abuses, the man-made doctrines, and the antichristian priest rule which through so many centuries had poisoned the Christian Church...