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...They also agreed to let New York City's Irish-U. S. Police Commissioner, Edward Pierce Mulrooney, arbitrate any case decided by the committee to the dissatisfaction of the disputants, thus gave him supreme judicial power. The committee's chairman will be J. S. Tow, Acting Chinese Consul General in New York, who, not so occupied with tourists & immigrants as other consuls general, may devote much time to keeping peace among the Tongs. Signer of the pact for the Hip Sing Tong was its President, Author Eng Ying ("Eddie") Gong (TIME, June 2). When the six leaders...
Every weekday for the past eleven years, Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, 69, has gone to his office in Manhattan at 6 a. m., for by that hour London is well into its day's work and Sir Harry is the British Consul-General in New York. More than 40 years ago he was a dashing captain of the Irish fusiliers. More than 30 years ago he was an actor of Shakespeare in London's famed Haymarket theatre. Nine years ago he crossed the retiring line for members of the British Civil Service, but not until last week, after two special...
...Martin, British Consul at Foochow, sailed up the Min River last week with $50,000 in a satchel and a sharp note for one Lu Sing-pan, bandit chief. Earlier in the week the Misses Edith Nettleton and Eleanor Harrison, members of the British Church Missionary Society, were fleeing from the district of Changsha, which was captured and looted fortnight ago by bandit-Communist troops (TIME...
Unnecessary delay would mean the loss of other parts of Miss Nettleton. The Church Missionary Society in London cabled Consul Martin at Foochow to pay the ranson instanter...
Thomas St. John Gaffney, onetime U. S. Consul-General in Berlin, returning from a visit with Wilhelm Hohenzollern at Doorn, deflated the legend that the ex-Kaiser continually chops wood for exercise; explained that, since his withered left arm hampers his axe-work, "what the Kaiser does is take the pieces of wood in his right hand and toss them with unerring accuracy into the barn loft...