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...mark, and the attitude of England, the German cabinet has thus far been able to keep up a boldly obstinate front. It evades the hope, possibly, that Doomsday will soon arrive. When France threatened to occupy the Ruhr, it seemed that their hope would be granted, but England withdrew its offer to cancel the French war debt, and France withdrew its threat...
...contest for second school fours held at 4 o'clock, Browne and Nichols won handily over the half-mile course by a matter of one and a half lengths Cambridge Latin, Tabor, and Rindge placed second, third, and fourth respectively. Noble and Greenough and Huntington withdrew their crews from the race...
...said: "The Japanese now in the Islands number only about 5000. They do not like the tropical climate, and, unlike the Chinese, do not adapt themselves readily to unaccustomed conditions. Commercial supremacy, however, is their greatest desire, and doubtless they would like to seize the Islands, if the Americans withdrew. The well-known prowess of the natives in guerilla fighting would make such a conquest very difficult even if unhindered by the intervention of another power. Nevertheless, if independence were granted, it would be necessary to insure it by an international agreement. Otherwise they would be quickly snapped...
...representing the Far Eastern Republic of Siberia. For some time Japanese troops have been occupying various portions of the Republic's territory to guard Japanese interests and incidentally for the good of the Siberians,--the delegates intimate it is for all their goods. In any case, when the Japanese withdrew from their more advanced posts they established a remarkable neutral zone into which they might advance if the Chita troops could not stop them but which no Siberian soldier was to enter on any account. This was the situation at the beginning of the Darien conference which was to discuss...
...Premier calls the "fighting line" follows on a series of disquieting portents. First there was the dramatic decision of Lord Robert Cecil to join the Opposition in protest against the government's policies. Then came the resignation of General Crozier in Ireland, and finally Lloyd George's own secretary withdrew his services. These events, together with the recent anti-Coalition results in some of the elections, have naturally left the Coalition government materially weakened...