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...more prosperous subjects of His Imperial Majesty Kang Te hastily fled from Manchukuo this week to China until all transport facilities were crushingly overtaxed. In Harbin, the Russian metropolis of Manchukuo. which teems with both White Russians and Red, furious quarreling raged between Japanese-Manchu officials and Soviet Consul General Mikhail Slavutsky. He refused their demand that 108 Manchu troops who recently mutinied against Japanese officers and took refuge in Siberia across the Soviet border be disgorged by the Soviet Far East Army of Red Marshal Blucher. Finally the Russians became so incensed that on orders from Moscow all Soviet...
...white wife, provided by Portuguese missionaries. The conversion was short-lived, though later generations of the Bini adopted wholeheartedly the custom of crucifying their human sacrifices. By 1896 Britain had already established control of the coast of Nigeria, was eager to trade with forbidden Benin in the interior. Acting Consul General Phillips, eager to hurry matters, sent a message to grinning black King Overami of Benin, asking permission to visit his capital, arrange a treaty. With the messenger the Briton sent the traditional present: a bottle of gin, a piece of cloth, a walking stick. King Overami appreciated...
...first dispatches to reach London gave Benin the name it has since held- "The City of Blood." Grinning King Overami did not want Consul Phillips to enter his town because for three months he and his chieftains had been slaughtering living slaves in memory of the dead King Adolo. The stench of rotting corpses was overpowering. Blackamoors had been crucified to ladders made between two trees, left there to feed the buzzards. On the city's mud altars the carved tusks and terrifying bronze heads, displayed in Manhattan last week, were caked thick with dried human blood...
Coining an urbane phrase in which to describe the efforts of British diplomats in Washington and London to draw the Roosevelt Administration into their way of thinking, Sir Gerald Campbell, popular British Consul General in Manhattan, declared: "We should like to embroil the United States in peace." Added Sir Gerald hastily, "not to protect the British Empire, but to save humanity from itself...
...fitting climax to the steadily increasing popularity of French films in America, M. Bergeron, Boston consul, will decorate Mrs. E. K. Rand, chairman of the French Talking Films Committee, in the Institute of Geographical Exploration at 8.50 o'clock tonight...