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The Machado government did not take this lying down. Within an hour three motors full of gunmen cornered the car of Dr. Ricardo Dolz, an anti-Machado leader and rector of the National University, and attempted to shoot him down. Their aim was poor. Blue with fright. Dr. Dolz escaped...
Kiplingites will remember with a pleased grin, anti-Kiplingites with a shudder, that very Kiplingesque creature "Mrs. Hauksbee," the hardbitten, hard-headed Anglo-Indian army wife in Plain Tales from the Hills who knew what was what, was fond of uttering scraps of omniscience in scriptural Kiplingo. In English Authoress...
Despite wars and rumors of wars in China, despite pestilence, flood and famine, the great sprawling city of Peiping has been comparatively prosperous and peaceable the past four years. That it remained peaceable last week was not the fault of the Japanese Legation guard. Acting under somebody's orders, they...
Later in the morning the dean of the Peiping diplomatic corps, elderly Senor Justo Garrido y Cisneros, Minister of Spain, called at the Japanese Legation. He carried a lively protest from another still more important legation objecting to the continuance of "provocatively dangerous" military activity. The whole thing looked suspiciously...
Died. Nelson O'Shaughnessy, 56, old-time U. S. diplomat; of heart disease; in Vienna. He held the posts of secretary and charge d'affaires in many a U. S. embassy & legation. He was in Mexico during the Victoriano Huerta regime when U. S. sailors were arrested in Tampico. President...