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Last week the Canton Naval Club gave a dinner in honor of Vice Admiral Sir William Archibald Howard Kelly, Commander-in-Chief of Britain's China Station. Most of the officials of the Canton Government and tycoons of South China attended. The piece de resistance was a large grilled sea-snake. (Tropical sea-snakes are poisonous, but admired as a Chinese delicacy after head and poison glands have been carefully removed...
Bravely overcoming Anglo-Saxon prejudice, Admiral Kelly absorbed the piece of tail that was his portion, suffered no ill effect. A bit of the neck went to Chu Chao-hsin, Inspector General of Foreign Affairs in the Canton Government, who ate it with relish and promptly died. Doctors opined that he had swallowed a bit of "poisonous bone," doubtless poisoned by gland secretion...
Recently Deputy Leon Nicole, Socialist editor of Le Travail, published charges of graft and financial scandal in the canton government of Geneva. Swiss conservatives retorted that Deputy Nicole and his ally Jacques Dicke, a naturalized Russian, were really Communist agents in the pay of Moscow. They organized an anti-Communist mass meeting in Geneva's Community Hall. Editor Nicole urged his followers to break it up, then hold a protest meeting of their own in the Plaine de Plainpalais, the Union Square of Geneva. At this point hysteria seized Geneva authorities, who seldom have a riot to deal with. Troops...
...victims of the ''Massacre of Plainpalais." At the week's end it seemed unlikely that the public would ever know who was responsible for the order to fire. A military investigation was ordered, soft pedaled. Said Giuseppe Motto, President of Switzerland and native of the country's one Italian canton...
...still looks like the capital of China. It is one of the tourist centres of the world-more so than ever now that the vast, incredible Forbidden City with its acres of palaces beneath acres of yellow tile roofs has been opened to visitors. Manchuria may go to Japan, Canton and the south may secede, Outer Mongolia may be quietly absorbed by Russia, but so long as the central Nanking government has a semblance of control over Peiping they can claim with justice to be the government of China...