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...ashes of Jean Jaurés, famed French Socialist, who was assassinated on the eve of the outbreak of the War in 1914, were deposited in their final resting place ? the Pantheon, national shrine of Republican France...
...outbreak in Los Angeles is the second to occur in the United States, the first being in Oakland, Calif., in September, 1919. In that epidemic there were 13 cases with 12 deaths...
...Pacific. Mexico and Japan, both harboring grudges against the United States, have signed a treaty of amity; and information comes from reliable sources that the United States and Australia are planning to take joint action in a nine months manoeuvre off the Hawaiian Islands. In case of an outbreak of war in the Pacific, the position of the nations is vaguely outlined by these very tentative rapprochements...
...This outbreak of rationalism is not to be interpreted too literally. Perhaps it is another protest of the revivified Oriental mind against the same and unreligious institutions which seem inevitably to choke religion. This fresh violence of belief may be the painful force which will free the living core of faith from the incrustations which the centuries attach to it. This protest against authority in the name of intellectual self-assertion may dissolve the effluxes, which stagnate about the fountain of primitive creed...
...Sept. 2, 1914, a month after the outbreak of a recent war, Congress, by statute, authorized the Treasury Department to insure U. S. merchant vessels and their cargoes against the hazards of war. Thus came into being the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Last week, this insurance business was "wound up"; it has ceased to exist...