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...Ho-hummed at an announcement by President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain will withdraw on Dec. 7 from President Roosevelt's once-famed "Tariff Truce" (TIME...
...Whitney's famed team of dappled grey hunters. Two Leggins, Grey Knight, Bon Diable, which took first, second and third in their class. They will meet hotter competition in Manhattan from the stables of Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, Mrs. John V. Bouvier III and Isaac Clothier Jr. ?ho did not exhibit at Chicago...
...Hall returned to China to engage in further elaborate dealings with his fellow Chinese generals. Last fortnight he left hastily for Japan. At the port he was refused entry to Japan and sent back to Tientsin where last week he was arrested. Nanking's Chief of Ordnance General Ho Chu-kuo charged that "General Chan" once cashed a $10,000 check intended as payment for German pistols that were never delivered. Since U. S. citizens enjoy extraterritorial rights in China, the arrest was not made until the U. S. consul had formally charged General Chan Hall with "engaging...
Since last spring heavy rains have swollen the two rivers that writhe clear across China: deep Yangtze and wide, slow Hwang Ho or Yellow River which 81 years ago shifted its entire course from the south to the north side of the Shantung Peninsula. Government experts last month warned China's millions that "almost inevitably" the Hwang Ho would writhe out of its new retaining dikes (many feet above the surrounding terrain) back to its old course (TIME, July 3). Last week the Hwang Ho broke its dikes in a dozen places in Shantung and Honan Provinces, flipped...
...listed last week as the only cruisers in China's Northeastern Squadron. When some weeks ago their commanders, quarreled with sedentary Admiral Shen Hung-lieh, Mayor of Tsingtao, he could do nothing to prevent their steaming out on the high seas of barter with the training ship Chao Ho ("Foundation of Peace"), a splendid modern Chinese craft...