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...Sturgis '03 of Seattle, Washington for the north Pacific section; C. E. Perkins '04 of Santa Barbara, California for the south Pacific section; S. B. Trainer '04 of Toronto, Ontario, for the Canadian section; J. H. Hyde '98 of Paris, France, for the European section; and F. S. Chien '10 of Pieping, China for the Orient...
...Prairie du Chien, Wis. on the railway station platform stands a great box. On its side is painted the address: "Prairie du Chien, Wis."-nothing else, no sender, no addressee. None of Prairie du Chien's 3,043 inhabitants has claimed it, all have come to look at it. The box contains an electric chair, designed for human executions...
Hero of the week was a General Liu Chien-nien (see cut), a lesser war lord who controls the strategic Chefoo area, 100 miles from Tsingtao. For the weeks past he has maintained a delicate neutrality between Northerners and Nationalists. Fortnight ago the Nationalist Government sent Liu Chien-nien rifles and silver dollars. They were gratefully received. The Nationalist Government ordered him to attack the northern armies. Liu Chien-nien refused...
Last week Northern generals sent Liu Chien-nien more munitions and draft of 1,000 soldiers. They were gratefully received. Northern generals ordered him to attack President Chiang Kaishek. Liu Chien-nien refused again...
...Chen Chien Routed. The only notable military action of the week occurred when Chiang Kaishek, onetime Generalissimo of all the Southern Nationalist armies, now War Lord of Shanghai and Nanking (TIME, March 28 et seq.) surrounded and captured 5,000 men commanded by his onetime subordinate, General Chen Chien. Despatches indicated that General Chen will be offered up to the Powers by General Chiang as a "Red" who, on his own responsibility, ordered and carried out the so-called "atrocities" against Occidentals at Nanking (TIME, April...