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The reception is certain to be a mob scene, the envy of Producers D. W. Griffith or Cecil B. De Mille. Imagine the quandary of even a well-informed newspaper correspondent, cornered perhaps by Pra Sundra Vachana, First Secretary of the Siamese legation, or Abu-el-Enein Salem Effendi, second...
Died. Oliver B. Harriman, 39, First Secretary to the U. S. Legation in Copenhagen, nephew of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman and Mrs. Frederick C. Havemeyer, Harvard graduate ('09) ; at Copenhagen, of heart disease.
Despatches from Peking stated that the recent siege (TIME, April 12) had been definitely broken by the entrance of the Manchu warriors, and that foreigners continued unmolested, safe in the legation quarter.
The Legation Quarter of Peking became an isolated isle of safety last week as the encircling armies of Chinese Super-Tuchuns (super-bandit warlords) stirred the whole region into a frothing sea of civil war. All communication by rail, road or telephone ceased to exist; and only one foreign cable...
For almost five months a cabinet crisis has existed at The Hague, where such occurrences are taken with phlegmatic calm. The last Cabinet, headed by Premier Colyn, quietly resigned after the Second Chamber (House) had attached a rider to the budget refusing funds to maintain the legation representing the Netherlands...