Word: escorting
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General Wu received the travelers most courteously and insisted on giving them angered escort for the first part of their journey by cart. The escort left them at the border of the province of Honau? which at that was infested with bandits, and the party passed safely in the peaceful province of Shensi...
...entered the first car, the President sitting on her right and Senator Curtis on her left. Mr. and Mrs. Dawes entered the second car. In single file, the cars rolled out of the grounds. Outside, buglers sounded a flourish. The escort of cavalry took up its position. As the cars emerged from the gate, a waiting crowd cheered. The President looked straight ahead. Two troops of cavalry led the procession. Then came the President's car, flanked by two cars containing secret service men, with a detective standing on the running board of each. Behind, followed three troops of cavalry...
After the final applause, the President and the Vice President, with their parties, entered the waiting machines and drove hastily back to the White House accompanied by an escort of cavalry. Going back, the President smiled broadly...
First came a police escort, then General Hines, Chief of Staff, riding alone, saluting with his sword as he passed. Soon after, he joined the President's party in the reviewing stand...
...Harry" was ousted, last November (Time, Nov. 17), from the Forbidden City by General Feng, Chinese Christian Soldier. He obtained asylum in the Japanese Legation at Peking and, later, under Japanese escort, went to the Japanese Consulate at Tientsin, apparently the initial trip on the longer voyage to Japan. Japan, however, could do no more for fear of offending the Chinese Government, and informed "Harry," last week, of that fact...