Word: consulars
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...Marines put up loft. barbed wire fences across side streets, planted machine guns. Into the harbor came Japan's two other airplane carriers. Into the harbor came also four U. S. destroyers from Manila (see p. 9). Reports of the Nanking bombing, traced to the Japanese consular office, said that it was only a "demonstration" and that the shells fired on the town were blank ammunition...
...Large, deep-voiced Edwin Sheddan Cunningham was born in Sevier County, Tenn. 64 years ago Once a mail clerk, he worked in a publishing house for a while, entered the Consular Service in 1898. He has remained in the Far East ever since, is now dean of foreign consuls in Shanghai, known even before the crisis as "the most difficult post in the consular service...
Earlier in the week the Japanese War Ministry had fulminated against the meddlesomeness in Manchuria of consular and military "observers" sent there by the Great Powers. Thus the bloody assault on Consul Chamberlain might have been construed as a warning, but the Imperial Government blandly described it as a "misunderstanding...
Victor P. W. Stanwood, consular agent at Anadakabe, Madagascar, shot and killed by Captain Duverge in a dispute growing out of the wreck of the U. S. vessel Solitaire...
...fallen President but rushed past, seized the assassin by neck and wrist and held him, shouting: "This is the man!" until relieved by policemen. Assassin Guiteau was a disappointed office-seeker whom both Garfield and Elaine had ordered kept off their premises. He had wanted, apparently, a consular appointment...