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...done so, said: "She was a good soldier and entitled to this." Britishers paid similar hon ors with the Union Jack - Mrs. Evans was an American citizen by birth and a British subject by marriage. The Murderers. The Mexican Government ordered General Roberto Cruz to make every effort to apprehend the murderers. He gave the matter his personal attention. President Obregon sent his private secretary to Puebla to investigate the circumstances of the crime. Within 24 hours of receipt of instructions by General Cruz a number of arrests were made. Within another 48 hours Francisco Ruiz and Alejo Garcia confessed...
...concern over the incident and to offer the "most sincere regrets" of his Government. "Surely," said he, "no one in the U. S. would believe the Japanese people capable of sympathizing with an outrage of this kind " He also said that the police would do their utmost to apprehend the culprit-which they later succeeded in doing...
...minor scene occurred when Mr. Masterman, Liberal, made a request for information to Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. The Chancellor thought the request offensive and said: "My right honorable friend can understand from the answer exactly what his intelligence enables him to apprehend." Thereupon loud cries of "Withdraw!" rent the air. The speaker said he did not think the question was offensive and the Opposition (Conservative) and Liberal cries turned to cheers...
...ships, when that was considered a sufficient margin of safety to allow for the apprehension of smugglers. There is, therefore, much to be said in favor of its extension, even though the mile of " hot pursuit" allows a revenue cutter to go more than a league from shore to apprehend a bootlegger caught openhanded. But the State Department has apparently taken the sound position that it is not for the United States, alone and of its own initiation, to effect a change in international law, whatever changes there may have been in the conditions that were responsible for such...
...geographical situation is such that we do not need a big standing army, for a treaty that has stood a century keeps us at peace with Canada, our neighbor on the North, and conditions are such that we do not apprehend aggressive action toward us on the part of Mexico, our neighbor to the South. But on the East and West we have long seacoasts which need protection, and their principal protection is our navy...