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Cables from Damascus reported that the city was last week undergoing practically a state of siege. The French were naturally dominant in the urban quarters by virtue of their artillery, but encircling bands of tribesmen were said to have kept up a practically uninterrupted series of raids on the suburbs...
Foreign Censorship. The 56th birthday of King Vittorio Emanuele was celebrated at a reception tendered him by the Government and Premier Mussolini at the Capital. Foreign newspapermen were barred even from attendance at this function by the adroit form in which the official invitos were cast. It was specifically required...
It is alleged that "General" Frank Sutton, "British soldier of fortune and an expert on trench mortars," has been retained for some time past as a military consultant with dictatorial powers, by Chang. And cables picture him as not only reorganizing Chang's entire military machine, but as having...
General Naulin and the staff of the French High Command will winter at Rabat, on the Atlantic coastline, a few miles north of Casablanca. There they will be well out of the muck and unpleasantness, but at the same time on the direct railroad to Fez and the embroiled uplands...
Cables asserted that the Soviet Government is expending over 50,000 gold rubles ($25,000) in providing prizes, paying the expenses of the contestants, entertaining them, and providing "gratification money," which in the case of Capablanca is said to have amounted to $5,000.