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...William's act was nothing less than to authorize a raid by operatives of Scotland Yard* on the five-story building in Moorgate street, near the Bank of England, where 1,000 British and Russian clerks were employed by Arcos, Ltd., the trading organization representing in England all the Russian cooperative societies. Moreover, in this same building is housed the Soviet Trade Delegation, guaranteed diplomatic immunity under the British-Soviet Trade Agreement of 1921. Details of the raid...
...director of the raid, Major General Sir Borlase Elward Wyndham Childs, appeared personally on the scene. Curtains were drawn, electroliers switched on, and all night the silhouettes of policemen could be observed occasionally upon the blinds as the police ransacked...
Charges. The employes of Arcos, Ltd., about half of them English girls and men, stated that they were personally searched by the police, who took from them whatever they deemed of interest, releasing them about an hour after the raid began...
...atrocity, dignified by the title of "execution," concerned 40 Chinese seized in a raid on the grounds of the Soviet Embassy at Peking (TIME, April 18), in violation of international law. Seized also were various documents which Chang Tso-lin's own interpreters translated as they pleased. These were introduced as evidence at a secret trial last week, and half the 40 prisoners were ordered strangled. They were not told which were to be strangled, which imprisoned or set free. They were simply herded into a compound a short distance from where Senator Bingham and War Lord Chang were...
...would think that Chicago with its $100,000,000 annual liquor business, with its $30,000,000 paid for protection, would have enough profits for all the hoodlums. But each gang has its eye on a monopoly. They encroach upon one another's territory, raid one another's warehouses, capture one another's beer trucks, slaughter one another's men. There are four major gangs: one on the North Side (with a onetime assistant state's attorney as its adviser) ; two on the south side (one of which is led by "Polack Joe" Saltis...