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Shanghai. The foreign boycott, which has lasted some weeks, broke down, shops opened. Violence did not end. The Japanese Consul was beaten by an infuriated mob. Several students threw sulphuric acid into a passing street car causing injuries to the occupants ; a Chinese woman had to be carted to a hospital. Strikers remained out and shipping continued to be tied...
...mob then advanced to the power plant, well-nigh destroyed it. Police forces of the neighboring towns arrived, but could do nothing. Many policemen were caught, locked up in the local prison. Their lives were spared only by the supplications of three clergymen. Mob rule set in. Stores were plundered. Thousands of dollars of damage was done...
...with the Canadian and an old U. S. title (1922) in her record. A bye, a tidy win from the Welsh champion and, one misty morning, Miss Collett had her chance. They floated the Stars and Stripes with the Union Jack over the clubhouse. The galleries swelled to a mob. But such shots as Joyce Wethered's few men could have launched. She was never off the course. She was 37 to the turn! At that, the American got 38 and was only 1 down when the gruelling told and she began to cut drives, to foozle putts. Miss...
...championed the weaker and discredited side. His services have often gone to the poor and the unfortunate, while he has not infrequently bettered the example of Abraham Lincoln by actually pleading the cause of a guilty man in order that the law, intimidated by the howls of the public mob, might not suffer a miscarriage of justice. Whatever one may think about Mr. Darrow personally, one can not help but admire this great attorney for his courage, his consistency, and his independent career...
...Dramatic Club is offering an opportunity to students for mob action. Coach Edward Massey '15, who is directing the Club's spring production of Dos Passos' "The Moon Is a Gong", announced last night that a noisy and well trained mob will be necessary to the action of the play. Those who wish to take part will attend the two dress rehearsals on May 10 and 11, and should report at the Dramatic Club offices at 69 Mt. Auburn Street at 7.30 this evening...