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...Shantung, disregarding incessant Nationalist howls of protest, suddenly came to terms last week with the shaky and harassed Nationalist Government and entered into a signed agreement to withdraw her slit-eyed marines by June 1. It is common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during the present civil...
Other White House callers, more formal, were Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, First Viscount Allenby, captor of the Holy Land, and Lady Allenby. Mrs. Coolidge entertained Cabinet ladies, newspaperwomen...
Such fate was nevertheless preferable to the treatment the blacks would have suffered as convicts or prisoners-of-war in Africa. Prisoners were put to slow torture and mutilation at the hands of the captor and his wives, vicious harpies who neatly carved out eyes, skinned off lips, and with sharp nails clawed out brains-succulent delicacy for the night's banquet. Convicts were killed by their own parents. In (none too authentic) pidgin English, dusky King Holiday confided to a client whose "factories" he kept well stocked with slaves: "All captains come to river tell me you king...
...captor, di Bari, produces an airplane, and flies his beautiful prey to a great stone cave in the mountains, where Janey expects crude camp fare, but finds instead all the comforts of home-roaring fires, fine books, kindly serving maids. At dinner appears the snivelling prince, captive too, to be tortured with the display of beauty that might have been his, but is now allotted to the bandit's delectation. Except by way of torturing the prince, di Bari's intentions are, however, honorable...
...planned to seduce him and when a lady threatened a double cross, Diamond Lil stabbed her in the tenderloin district. Despite her efforts, Gus Jordan, the bowery boss, is caught eventually, for white slave trafficking. The Salvation Army captain, really a member of the police force, is his captor; Diamond Lil cuddles into his arms at the end saying, "Boy, I knew you could...