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...conscription of all men between the ages of 18 and 60 for the Syrian national guard. It also voted immediate credits to increase the Syrian gendarmerie by 5,000 men. Both states abruptly broke off negotiations with France. Later there was bloody street fighting between French and Syrians in Hama. (In his Damascus home President Shukri el-Kuwatly, in bed with an intestinal ulcer, suffered a serious relapse and had to have blood transfusions...
...year ago the U. S. had four great and potent friends in Japan: Premier Hama-guchi, his successor Wakatsuki, able bow-&-arrow man, Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, the "Roosevelt of Japan," Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye. Premier Hamaguchi was shot by a fanatic, died a lingering death. Premier Wakat-suki was driven out of office by Japanese militarists. Baron Shidehara dared oppose the invasion of Shanghai fortnight ago (TIME, Feb. 15) and lay gravely ill at his home last week. And last week grey-templed, precise Junnosuke Inouye drove to a political rally in Tokyo...
Meanwhile Japan's militarism was mak ing trouble for Japan's business. The very day that troops were marching on Harbin and naval guns were bombarding the Whangpoo forts, Japanese bonds dropped to new lows in New York, prices crashed on the Tokyo stock exchange. The Yoko hama silk exchange, centre of one of Japan's most important industries, was forced to close. The Osaka sugar mills shut down last week, strangled by the Chinese boycott. By advice of old Prince Saionji no figures on the cost of Japan's military operations were allowed to ap pear...
...Sumida River (1) and little Kanda River (2), his Majesty can state as an eyewitness are still flowing. Buds are sprouting in the "Cherry Blossom Parks": Shiba (3), Hibiya (4), Uyeno (5), and Hama Rikyu (6), which is every year the scene of the Imperial Cherry Blossom Garden Party. Different is Asakusa Park (7), a "Coney Island," incongruously surrounding the Sacred Temple of the Goddess of Mercy...
...daily in guerilla attacks upon the French Army of Occupation. For eight months the French garrison at Damascus has bombarded that city or its environs almost nightly (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.). Scarcely a morning dawns that French airplanes do not drone aloft to release bombs. At Aleppo, Horns, Hama, Seraand, Suedia and Salkhad other French garrisons defend themselves by similar means. French semi-armored trains and auto-convoys ply with grim regularity this sea of revolt. When a lone Frenchman ventures forth, a scimitar flashes or a crudely cast bullet dumdums into his flesh. But Syria is far from...