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...civil war for China, the events of the last fortnight have definitely transformed the presumption that a strong Chinese Government is to be found in Peking to the possibility that it may be found in the not distant future at Canton. The U. S. Minister to China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray, sensitive to this trend, was reported to be in Canton last week, despite his previous announcement that he had left China for the Philippines. Simultaneously negotiations were reported progressing to end the anti-British boycott. The emergence of Canton from self-imposed boycott isolation to paramount importance loomed...
...Minister John Van Antwerp MacMurray, set out for Shanghai and there visited Super-Tuchun Sun. Embarking at Shanghai for Manila last week, Mr. MacMurray announced his intention of taking council with Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippines as to the future Oriental policy...
...principle of the oil-compression engine was worked out by Engineer Rudolf Diesel (1857-1913) of Germany, who fell overboard from an Antwerp-Harwich mail steamer and was drowned in 1913, before the full possibilities of his work had been realized...
...Help us! Nothing justifies the uneasiness of our population. Never have we had so few unemployed. Antwerp has recovered full activity. Our crops are bountiful. . . . The budget is balanced, thanks to economy, and no new taxes will be needed on this score. In near future security can be restored...
Rainclouds swaddled the low countries along the North Sea, whipped and harried by a southwest wind, as 14 monstrous rubber bubbles sailed aloft from an aviation field near Antwerp and drifted off toward the Dutch frontier. Night fell before all the bubbles had come again to earth. Dawn found one of them still coasting northeast over the boggy islands and bays of Denmark, over the fat fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then...