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From Peshawar, on India's northern frontier, last week, two Scotch bankers, J. L. Hutcheson and J. V. Dunsmore of the Imperial Bank of India, motored out with an escort of a native sergeant and two soldiers to see the sunrise from the top of the Khyber Pass. Enraged by the sight of two Scotchmen looking at the Indian sun, the Indian sergeant ran amok, shot and killed both the Scotch bankers, was killed himself by the two Indian privates. Peshawar officials hastened to deny that the frenzied Indian sergeant was connected with the placid St. Gandhi movement...
...then punched his brandied nose. "C-c-consider yourself under military arrest!" spluttered the General. Next day Spain's new Dictator, General Damaso Berenguer, took a short cut out of an embarrassing situation, ordered Lieu tenant Miguel Primo de Rivera out of the country. Last week a police escort saw him as far as Hendaye, across the Spain-France border. A third son of the fallen Dictator was serving last week with the Spanish air force in Africa, where men are men, insults insults, but of him there was no news...
Only the women, children, and persons obviously unconnected with the "riot" were released from the battle-scarred car, and the train proceeded to the car-barn, where reserves from the Brattle Square Station were ready to escort the Harvard students to headquarters...
...Pittsfield, Mass., three years ago, Rose Messel went to pick blackberries. Her escort, Harold Plant, pushed her off a steam shovel; James P. Mahon and Louis Stasker slashed Harold Plant, were put in prison. Ralph Green and Ralph Thomas later clubbed Harold Plant, claimed that the parents of Rose Messel had urged them to do so. Ralph Green, Ralph Thomas, Rose Messel's father and mother went to prison. Rose Messel's father became insane, was removed to a lunatic asylum. Last week, a cripple, Rose Messel died...
...homes of friends, according to the will of the hostess," at resorts to which young Baltimore men friends escort them, privily, by stealth, Goucher College girls have usually smoked if they wanted to. Their worst fear of detection has been that some righteous schoolmate might see and report then. Seldom has this happened for Goucher is a big college [enrolment: 985] in the middle of a busy city. Keeping in stride with other pragmatic women's colleges, last week Acting President* Hans Froelicher announced that as long as smoking did not "interfere with routine class work," or create fire...