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Died. Colonel Edward Alfred Simmons, 56. publisher & rail expert; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Brooklyn. X. Y. He was president of Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp. (Railway Age, Airway Age, Boiler Maker) and of American Saw Works, and board chairman of American Machine Tool...
...this time had heard impressive rumors that Mr. Norman will soon be succeeded as Governor by that director of the Bank of England who was seemingly closest to the actual helm in the crisis fortnight ago, Sir Josiah Stamp, grizzled chairman of the great London, Midland and Scottish Railway...
...Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, peace apostle, were the actions of the Japanese General Staff last week. Japanese planes not only bombed Chinese villages in Manchuria but ground-strafed a train on which, in his private car, rode indignant General Man ager J. G. Thomson of the Peiping-Mukden Railway, a British subject. Japanese troops if withdrawing at all from Manchuria were withdrawing last week very slowly. In British Hong Kong, Chinese mobs rushed the Japanese quarter, were restrained only by a bayonet charge of the Scotch Highlanders, kilts aflutter...
Died. Clemuel Ricketts Woodin, 86. pioneer railway car builder, father of President William Hartman Woodin of American Car & Foundry Co.; in Berwick...
...18th of this month that the Japanese troops on the South Manchuria Railway, falsely alleging the destruction of a bridge by some Chinese, instantly started in many directions to disarm the Chinese garrisons in South Manchuria. The railway zone being soon outrun, the Japanese soldiers speedily occupied Mukden, the capital, and practically all other strategic points. Hundreds of Chinese were killed. Altogether there are now more than 14,000 Japanese troops in Manchuria. Additional forces had landed in Tsingtao, farther south in the province of Shantung, and gunboats appeared in the Liaotung Gulf. Since the news agency in Manchuria...