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Peking. Students, mostly children, backed by merchants, shopkeepers, coolies, continued to parade the streets demanding armed action against the British. Chief Executive Tuan Chi-jui requisitioned troops to guard foreigners. The Diplomatic Corps warned the Gov ernment that it must take energetic steps to quell anti-foreign disturbances. The Government replied that the disturbances were caused by foreigners...
...result of the present case is doubtful because, recently, the Gov ernment's case against Fall and the Dohenys was quashed because of the presence in the Grand Jury room of an Assistant Attorney General. Is a stenographer as illegal in a Grand Jury room as an Assistant Attorney General...
...Agencies. In 1916, was created the U. S. Shipping Board, in- tended originally as a semi-judicial and regulative body. When the War came, it was supplemented by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, a Gov-ernment-owned organization, entirely controlled by the Shipping Board, for the purpose of carrying on the business of operating a Government merchant marine. For all intents and purposes, the Emergency Fleet -Cor-poration was the business organization of the Shipping Board. For long the Chairman of the Shipping Board was President of the Corporation. It was not until about a year ago (TIME, Jan. 14) that...
...Chicago, is approaching the end of the egregious Veterans' Bureau scandal. Charles R. Forbes, former director of the Bureau, and J. W. Thompson, a contractor, are on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Gov- ernment in connection with the letting of contracts for veterans' hospitals. The testimony in large part was noisome if not nauseous; but it is important in that it will probably result in a legat determination of the charges of corruption in the Veterans' Bureau under the Forbes regime...
Elections over, the Parties are in about the same position. The Gov- ernment coalition still lacks a majority. There is this difference: The Government Parties, excepting the Democrats (who declined to work with the Monarchists), can now rule with the Monarchists and thus stay in power. Failing an agreement with the latter, it would seem that the Government must resign. The situation, therefore, in its broad out- lines, is a case of "as you were...