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...protection for the approximate 2,000 Swiss citizens residing in Rebel territory, he was allowed to open an office in Berne to conduct his business. But he managed to obtain a tag with the letters "C.D." from the Department of Interieur, the branch of vehicles & traffic of the canton of Berne, for his car, distinguishing it from other people's cars. ("C.D." means Corps Diplomatique...
Occidental Governments so fear the spread of China's pestilences that the U. S. Public Health Service has an outpost at Hong Kong, which last week reported the main foci of the epidemic as in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Hoihow, Macao. Amoy and Foochow were being scrutinized closely. The League of Nations has established a central observation post in Singapore, and last week the League's observers reported that refugees from the coast were spreading cholera inland. At the League of Nations' Geneva headquarters last week, its watchful Health Committee warned: "Repercussions which might become serious internationally...
...anti-aircraft batteries did magnificent work at the main centres of attack, such as Nanking and Shanghai, but little or nothing could be done against Japan's methodical daily bombing of China's necessarily exposed railway lines, the arteries of her troops and supplies. The new Hankow-Canton railway was so heavily bombed that neutrals doubted if it was still functioning this week, agreed that the line from Nanking which starts from Pukow across the river and runs to the main war zone in North China was being bombed at intervals over its whole length...
...Bulgarian but a Swiss am I, though born in Bulgaria. This as a word of caution to you in case you ever run into one of the thousands of Zwickys whose lives and deaths stand recorded in the church registers (Kirchenbücher) of Mollis, Canton of Glarus, Switzerland for over 600 years...
...squabbles to constructive achievements of the schools. This won him a job as public relations man for the Cleveland school system. He was the chief witness against Eugene Debs when that celebrated pacifist was tried for violation of the Espionage Act as a result of a speech made in Canton, Ohio, in 1918 and given a 20-year sentence. Later he regretted the outcome, tried to obtain Debs's release...