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The Honduran Civil War (TIME, Feb. 11 et seq.) was reported to be getting worse, but no definite news was obtainable, except that at Tegucigalpa, the capital, disorders were rife and threats were made against foreigners and foreign property, even against the American Legation.
¶As Ambassador to Brussels, to replace Mr. Fletcher, the President nominated William Phillips, 45, Under Secretary of State. He began his diplomatic service as private secretary to the late J. H. Choate, Ambassador to the Court of St. James. His next place was as Second Secretary of the American...
General Feng, "Chinese Christian Soldier," entered the legation quarter in Peking to dine at the U. S. Legation.
The Chinese police of the legation quarter, who are under the control of the Diplomatic Corps at Peking, stopped the car. General Feng's soldiers "drew their revolvers and used threatening language"; then, "General Feng himself alighted and joined his soldiers in knocking down one of the police and...
Premier Alexander Zankoff supplied the American Legation in Sofia with "large quantities of documentary evidence of Russian Soviet activities in Bulgaria."