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...terrific heat wave greatly interfered last week with the prosecution of the war in Morocco (TIME, May 11, et seq.). Minor engagements were reported in the Spanish sector in the south, but nothing decisive was effected by any engagement. In general, the Riffians continued to dominate Fez* and Taza behind the Wergha River and a new offensive against the former was developing...
Rire, Paris comic paper, takes a slightly different view. In a double cartoon called Tracts et Tractions (Ideals and Deals), it shows a Communist in Paris holding the Communist paper L'Humanite and shouting Le Rif aux Rifains (the Riff for the Riffians). In the other picture is an Englishman in conference with a Riff and the inscription beneath runs: "... et, bien entendu, les mines de Ouergha á une société anglaise!" ( . . . and, of course, the Wergha mines for an English company...
...general situation in Eastern China remained, as it has for the past few weeks (TIME, June 15 et seq.), pregnant with ugly possibilities. The Chinese did a great deal of agitating. Foreigners took many steps to secure safety of life. Both sides engaged in desultory conversations which had no outcome. Strikes were maintained in practically all the seaboard cities. At Wukingfu, Kwangtung Province, one male and two female missionaries were beaten and knifed...
...capable of endless trouble in China which can be offset only by the unified action of the Powers. The greatest danger is that the Chinese Government, being met with nothing from the Powers (mainly Britain) but chilly demands for justice with indemnities for the Shanghai outrages (TIME, June 15 et seq.), will listen readily to the friendly advances of Moscow. Undoubtedly with this in their minds, the U. S., Britain and Japan agreed to a compromise at Tokyo aimed at calming China, while at Swampscott President Coolidge insisted on a scrupulous observance of the Nine-Power Treaties, the respect...
National Geographic Society (TIME, June 29 et seq.), ordered his two ships on up the Labrador Coast. A stop was made at Domino to take on sealskin boots. Bucking a head wind into Hopedale Harbor, MacMillan learned that the ice had gone out of there only four days before; yet the next day, the wind falling, ravenous clouds of mosquitoes filled the sultry air and fattened on the white men as they fished for trout and salmon, shot seals, took pictures, exhibited their two Navy seaplanes and their radio apparatus to curious Eskimos, visited with the Rev. W. W. Ferret...