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...after the signing of the Nine-Power Treaty a,t the Washington Conference. The Nine-Power Treaty was signed Feb. 6, 1922. Prince Yamagata, however, had been seriously ill since the preceding October and had died on Feb. i, 1922. Moreover, at this period Emperor Taisho had been an invalid for some years and had delegated his authority to the Crown Prince as Regent in November, 1921. Following this conference, Baron Tanaka, (the author of the alleged memorial) is declared to have been sent to Europe and America "to ascertain secretly the attitude of important statesmen" toward the Nine-Power...
...describes a pair of bright young things who, apparently having nothing better to do, attempt to befriend some dear old things downstairs. In the course of their philanthropy they have the daughter of the family packed off to Canada. She departs brokenhearted. They also arrange an operation for the invalid mother. She dies. The father (venerable 0. P. Heggie), mortally stricken by the heartless kindness of his neighbors, is left to face his future empty-handed and alone...
...family, became a Japanese citizen and a professor in the Imperial University. He died in 1904, leaving three sons and a daughter. Kazuo, 39, lives on inherited money, collects curios. Iwao, 35, tall, handsome,soldierly, teaches school. Kiyoshi, 32, is a musician. All married Japanese women. Daughter Susuko, an invalid, is unmarried...
With these words the Federal Board of Parole in Washington last week decided to keep invalid, impoverished Albert Bacon Fall, 70, in the New Mexico State Penitentiary at Santa Fe to the legal limit of his year-and-a-day sentence. Petitions for his parole and for executive clemency had rolled in upon the Department of Justice from the not-too-sensitive Southwest. All were now sternly denied...
...southern boundary of Libya has never been definitely fixed. France has avoided the question for years by insisting that since Italy could not control the territory she already held it was a waste of time to talk about boundaries in the Sahara. Marshal Badoglio has now made this answer invalid...