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Last week the French captured Suedia, capital of the Jebel Druse, and relieved a French garrison, which had held in a state of seige by the natives there for 66 days. Sultan Atrasch followed by thousands of his tribesmen fled to the hills. In Paris there were rejoicings at "the beginning of the end of French troubles in Syria...
...bankers, business men, labor leaders, missionaries and students of foreign affairs, met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore at an International Conference on American relations with China. All week they listened to reports, weighed opinions, rumors, and theories about China and her relations with the U. S. Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of The Nation made impassioned speeches, as did many another. Before adjourning the Conference reversed its announced intention of not going on record with opinions about China; passed by a majority of 125 to 25 a resolution declaring that "Extraterritoriality should be abolished and tariff autonomy given...
...been fragmentary and contradictory, agreeing only in presenting a story of native unrest and guerrilla warfare. Some 1,500 Bedouins were reported to have assaulted Damascus, been repulsed by French cavalry, to have prepared for another onslaught, to have captured an outpost. The French fort of Sueida with a garrison of 200 was besieged by the Druse tribe . . . An airplane endeavoring to drop provisions was shot down. Another dropped a bomb on a group of natives, reported 40 killed and wounded. . . A French General was wounded while riding out in his automobile . . . Two caravans of 40 camels each were reported...
...graduation, this elder Lamont continued with journalism, at Albany, N. Y., at Seattle, Wash. There was an interim of teaching English at Harvard and Brown, and then he became, in 1900, an editor of the Saturday Evening Post. Six years later, upon the retirement of the late Wendell Phillips Garrison, Lamont took his original, ironic, extremely vigorous pen over to The Nation, editing that magazine with conspicuous ability until his death...
Samuel Adams Edwin Booth Charles Bulfmch Horace Bushnell George .Rogers Clark John Singleton Copley Dorothea Lynde Uix Cyrus West Field William L. Garrison Nathaniel Greene Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson John Jay John Paul Jones