Word: despatch
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...Another despatch from Sovietland corroborated the fact that Trotsky had retired to his country palace, but authoritatively stated that he had been ordered by doctors to rest for two months, owing to "weakness of both body and spirit, the result of a mysterious malady developing during the past three months, whose marked symptom was a wasting, intermittent fever." This despatch inferred that the rumors in Russia about Trotsky were more numerous than those received by the outside world, and that the political dispute of which Trotsky is the center, was "so hot as to mislead some of the Communists themselves...
...Allied Military Control Commission arrived in Berlin. Berliners snowballed the members. The despatch did not say whether this demonstration was one of friendship or hate. The latter was presumed...
Admiral von Tirpitz, Hochadmiral der Deutsche See Flotte warhend des Krieges: "A Berlin despatch stated that I inserted a want advertisement in a newspaper, announcing that any modest young man wishing a quiet, refined abode might have a furnished room in my residence...
According to a despatch from Paris, France has just ended a year of extraordinary industrial and commercial prosperity. Owing, however, to the nonpayment by Germany of her debts, the national finances are in worse shape than they have ever been in the history of the Third Republic...
Died. John Edward Welch, 86, Civil War despatch rider, who carried the news of President Lincoln's assassination to General Grant, at West Orange...