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Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian aristocrat, is the backer and passenger of the flight. Seriously wounded in the War, he was invalided out of service and sent to Holland in the German consular service. A close friend of the former Crown Prince, he shared the first days of his dreary exile. He is 36, married, superstitious...
...Chinese people. The political significance of this Nationalist movement is great There is opposition to the foreign control of post office, customs, rail ways, and revenues, urgent demand for the abolition of the existing unequal treaties with the Great Powers, for the abandonment of concessions, legations, foreign courts, and consular jurisdiction: and a zealous effort to curb the colonial expansion of the imperialistic powers...
...cries of "Down with the Croats!" In Venice roiled crowds attempted to stage a riotous demonstration in front of the French and Jugoslav Consulates, engaging in a pitched battle with the police, their obstructors. After night fell they made a wild but fruitless dash by gondolas on the Jugoslav consular edifice...
...several hours before we could do anything for her (Anderson) but first aid. At Mazatlan we were met by Dr. Chapman and the American consular agents. Dr. Chapman pronounced the wound grave and her chances very slim. All this time Florence was brave and never lapsed into unconsciousness...
...England would be public men of importance. Here the tradition of government service is dangerously weak. It should be built up by more such addresses as those given yesterday by Mr. Dawes at Washington University and Mr. Aldred at M. I. T. The Vice President dwelt upon the diplomatic, consular, and state department services. Mr. Aldred happily called attention to the horizontal extent of the Public Service by speaking of the industrial and municipal engineering research in relation to city planning, water power development, conservation, and flood control. The City, the State, and the Nation need the college trained...