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Last week Chang chartered a tramp steamer and stepped aboard her at Dairen, with 250 hired soldiers of fortune including the "White Russian" General Ataman Seminov. Without the slightest hindrance from the Japanese port authorities the tramp steamer cleared, wallowed out into the Gulf of Chili, and steamed the short 100 miles to the Chinese port of Teng-chowfu in Shantung. There Chang landed amidst a rabble army of soldiers who had served him as war lord. All night long they labored, with many a grin, unloading from the tramp steamer rifles, machine guns, light artillery...
...country his broad and sympathetic understanding of their problems and his capacity to impart his knowledge, he had become a profound inspiration to all students of international relations. The official positions which he has so ably held in the American legations in St. Petersburg and Vlenna and later in Chili, Sweden, and Northern Russia and especially in Paris during the peace Conference when he served as the principal representative of the American delegation to survey and report conditions in Central Europe and the Balkans, all contributed to his immense store of practical experience. The friendly compacts which he had reestablished...
...days after that, President Coolidge told a White House caller, who had just returned from South America, that he could imagine and had long considered the state of Maine and the Republic of Chili being joined some day by a monumental motor highway, which would unite North and South America commercially, socially...
Valedictory. In a congratulatory speech Dr. Alberto Guani of Chili, president of the eighth Assembly, brought the session to a close. Said he: "For more than three weeks the governments have been sitting in this Assembly. They have considered international activity in all aspects and they have surveyed their policy and I am convinced have decided their future program. Not one of them will for a moment dream of evading the unwritten engagements it has contracted in this hall. Not one of them will forget the discussions that have taken place or the conclusions that have been reached. That...
...tell the mother of little Horace to tell Horace that his father's last wish was that when he is 25 years of age, he should come to China as a missionary." Horace Tracy Pitkin, Congregational missionary at Paotingfu, Chili Province, China, said this one noisome summer day in 1901 to his faithful Chinese letter-carrier and general servant, Kuo Lao-man. Pastor Pitkin had some months before sent his wife and only child, Horace Collins Pitkin, then a scrappy three-year-old, back to Mrs. Pitkin's home at Troy, Ohio. His command...