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...Brig. Gen. John Henry Russell, U. S. High Commissioner to Haiti, arrived on the Ancon, pointed to press reports of a Brooklyn gang murder, had this to say of the land of King Christophe: "You can go anywhere in Haiti and be safe, and that is more than you can do in some countries...
Timely, therefore, was the arrival of Federal war boat Progresso and Brig.-Gen. Heliodoro Charis, who routed the Fourteeners, rescued the besieged...
Apathetic to mere law, the onetime slaves were glad to continue toiling for their former masters, last week, because Sierra Leone is so impoverished and undeveloped that many a free man cannot earn a slave's adequate "board and keep." Commenting, the British Governor of Sierra Leone, Brig. Gen. Sir Joseph Byrne, said: "Although the freeing of the slaves is a step of great importance, it marks what is only a beginning toward the ultimate ideal of abolition of unpaid communal labor...
...Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler...
...President gravely shook the gnarled hand of Henry B. Hallowell, venerable marine. He had presented 'letters from President Harding and Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler of the Marine Corps attesting that he is the oldest living "devil...