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...surrendered unarmed. Most of the foreigners had been evacuated to Hong-Kong. Those that remained in Shamien, the foreign settlement, were unmolested, but could see the wholesale murder, arson and rape committed by the blood-thirsty Kuo Mintang. No doubt remained but that they were in the employ of the Bolsheviki. U. S. and British ships were fired on. Anarchy prevailed...
Shanghai. Chinese workers in a Japanese cotton mill at Shanghai went on strike, as had their countrymen in Japanese employ at Tsingtao (TIME, June 8). Court proceedings against the ringleaders were taken, convictions obtained...
...follow much the same system as you employ here. There are lectures about twice a week, and some times the professor makes one of the students deliver the morning's lecture upon an as- signed topic. We do not have the great number, of tests that you have here, while our examinations cover an entire program instead of a single course. Thus a student's examinations depend upon the program he is pursuing, and if this is one of two year's duration he has no examinations until that date...
...next two volumes he will employ the results of his researches into the statistics of production, labor, immigration, population, and education. These statistics will be used in illustrating the American industrial society from the close of the War for Southern Independence to the outbreak of the Great...
Questioned on the means he would employ to increase revenue, the Finance Minister indicated more by emphasis than by direct discourse that the State monopolies would be reorganized; that Government relations with the railways would be revised in such way as to increase revenue and decrease expenditure ; that the Treasury would be relieved of the necessity of floating short-term credits to keep the floating debt floating; that, in his opinion, the most important item of all was to restore public confidence at home and abroad...