Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese regime at Nanking which dominates the chief part of China, Shanghai, suddenly increased all tariffs and port dues last week to an extent which local U. S. merchants and shippers declared would prove "ruinous." Members of the U. S. colony at Shanghai transmitted through the local consul a protest and appeal to President Coolidge. Observers thought that the Nanking War Lord, Chiang Kaishek, was suffering reverses in his campaign to take Peking (TIME, March 28, et seq.) and had adopted the desperate expedient of raising all port taxes to increase his failing revenue...
Midnight noises awakened William E. Chapman, U. S. Consul at Puerto Mexico, in the State of Vera Cruz. Soon Consul Chapman, no coward, was tiptoeing downstairs with a dim lamp as his only guide...
Thus threatened, Consul Chapman retreated step by step to his bedroom, the peons making no demands but simply prodding him on. There the man with the revolver suddenly fired at point blank range, sending a bullet into Mr. Chapman's left breast which fortunately passed cleanly through, not leaving a mortal wound. An instant later both peons dashed from the house...
...Consul Chapman, succored by friends, expressed the opinion that the man who had fired upon him was "simply an anarchist"; and declared himself unable to imagine any motive for the crime. Observers remembered that the U. S. Consulate at Puerto Mexico, was established only last March...
...shows a surplus. Time and again the Majlis (Parliament) has been ready to oust the U. S. Administrator-General of Finance; but many flukes have saved him. For example his dismissal was thought certain in 1924, just before the murder (TIME, July 28, 1924) of the U. S. Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie. That incident so fired U. S. wrath that the Persian Government dared not further inflame U. S. opinion by the discharge of Dr. Millspaugh. Recently the Doctor's dismissal has again been rumored; but the extension of his contract last week, seemed to augur that Persians...