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...suppress truth" was vindicated in Chicago. Arthur Lorenz, former editor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung (German), made the above remarks editorially. Suit was brought for criminal libel and Mr. Lorenz convicted by a jury. Unless he can secure a new trial he is liable to a year in prison, a $500 fine, or both...
...China the ancient and honorable game of Mah Jongg is used to settle many disputes and problems. More than one man has, by being careless with an East Wind, found himself sitting in solemn silence in the dull, dark dock of a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock of a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block...
...most conflicting rumors in regard to the religious situation in Russia agree on this: the Patriarch Tikhon, of Moscow, was unfrocked by the recent " All-Russian " council of the Greek Orthodox Church. The council was captured by radicals, and the Patriarch Tikhon, who was in a Soviet prison at the time, was unfrocked without a hearing. No man was put in his place, the church radicals believing in a more democratic form of church government. Tikhon, according to one report, was poisoned in prison. More recent reports assert that he has made his peace with the Soviet Government, and that...
...poses, of course, as the great friend of the People. Horatio Bottomley, its notorious editor, led many " patriotic " and " humanitarian " enterprises during the war, and finally went to prison for peculations of their funds. But John Bull goes on with all the devices of American yellow journalism and a few master touches of its own. The contents of its current number includes: " The World, the Flesh and the Devil" (tabloid editorials), "Who Shields the Wicked Woman," " Houses Exchanged for Girls," " Candid Communications " (open letters from John Bull to his friends and enemies), "Human Documents" (an enlarged and unexpurgated version...
Thus the tables have been turned with consummate neatness on the Stambuliski Cabinet for its ministers are now in prison, while those of the Suchkoff and Malmoff Cabinets, imprisoned by Stambuliski for drag ging Bulgaria into the World War on the side of Germany, are free...