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...thick khaki uniforms and broad blue sashes, 508 men of the French Foreign Legion marched in full equipment to the railway yards at Sidi-bel-Abbes, Legion headquarters in Algeria, and entrained for French Morocco. Just what they were going to do when they got to Morocco only a few of the officers knew, but France does not spare her mercenaries. The Legionaries were ready to see action and face Death at the end of their trip...
Tall, lanky Henry Walsworth Kinney, public relations director for Japan's South Manchuria Railway, who boasts proudly of his Japanese artist-wife and her step-motherly care of his part Hawaiian son, walked into Harbin last week dressed in a potato sack and part of a tent. Other U. S. travelers were not so lucky. Nude, blue with cold, suffering from exhaustion they staggered into town to tell about four brigand-staged trainwrecks. Most graphic description came from young Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the Nation, on his way across Russia to study...
...were 800 copies of William Powell Frith's famed "Railway Station." Old Graves gravers, sniffing at modern art prices, remember that this heavily varnished canvas was the artistic sensation of 1862. Royal Academician Frith sold the picture outright for $22,500 and received another $3,750 for waiving his right to show it in the Academy. When it was put on private exhibition, 21,150 people paid to see it in seven weeks, most of them subscribing for copies...
Hero Honjo, indicating his delight by sucking air through his teeth, wrote autographs as fast as he could scribble, grinned, bobbed, bowed at each "Oh, thank you so much, General!" Next morning at least 100,000 citizens of Tokyo massed round the railway station at 7 a. m. when Conqueror Honjo's special train chuffed in. On the platform stood princes of the Royal House, six Cabinet Ministers and the Imperial Chamberlain who solemnly stepped forward to bestow on General Honjo the divine welcome of the "Son of Heaven," Emperor Hirohito...
Died. Arthur George Wells, 70, vice president in charge of operation for Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.; of pneumonia; in Chicago...