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...attempt was made to deal at once with the Mosul question (TIME, Nov. 30, et ante) and to make a final settlement of the Greco-Bulgar dispute (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante). Both the Turks and the Greeks, however, strongly resisted the adjudication of these matters which the Council seemed disposed to give; and it was decided that further investigations should be pursued before the Council hands down its ultimate decisions. Definite action was taken on only one matter...
...past week in the court martial of Colonel William Mitchell (TIME, Nov 9 et seq.) was spent in taking the prosecution's rebuttal testimony. Several naval officers were called as witnesses to answer the testimony of Colonel Mitchell's witnesses who had supported the charges for the making of which the Colonel is on trial...
...Peking no one molested the delegates of the Powers, who are trying to come to an agreement with "the Government of China" concerning the Chinese customs dues (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.). The U. S. Minister to China and delegate to the Customs Conference, John Van Antwerp MacMurray, reported that the various conference committees were functioning smoothly, but declined to hazard a guess as to the ultimate significance of military developments of the past week...
When Sculptor Gutzon Borglum quarreled with the committee in charge of the Memorial which is being cut into the front of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Mar. 2 et seq.) and Augustus Lukeman was appointed in his place, many people thought that the long squabble had been buried at last with the Confederate dead which the Memorial is to commemorate. True, there were those who suggested that Sculptor Lukeman was better fitted to carve epitaphs on tombs and chisel dates on cornerstones than to model soldiers, but such people were laughed down...
...Vice President of the famed department store, Saks & Co.; at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, of septic poisoning. In leading Manhattan dailies he was publicly mourned in paid advertisements by rival merchants- Abraham & Straus, Stern Bros., Lord & Taylor, James McCreery & Co., Franklin Simon & Co., Gim- bel Bros., Oppenheim-Collins, et...