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Moreover it has long been known that Admiral Kato's favorite protege on the naval staff of which he is chief was Lieu-enant-Commander Yeiji Kusakari, scion of an old Samurai clan of deathless bravery, a highstrung man of 40, husband of a devoted wife, father of four. This officer last week engaged a berth at Kobe on the night express for Tokyo. Along toward dawn the conductor heard groans from his compartment, knocked diffidently, received no answer, debated for some time before he dared to unlock a staff officer's door...
...Johnson had never before flown farther than the 200 miles from Hull to London. Subsisting mainly on sandwiches and fruit en flight, sleeping "an average of three hours a day," borrowing a change of clothing at each stop (in lieu of baggage), the girl has completely captured British fancy...
...boxed General Queipo de Llano first on his left ear, next on his right, then punched his brandied nose. "C-c-consider yourself under military arrest!" spluttered the General. Next day Spain's new Dictator, General Damaso Berenguer, took a short cut out of an embarrassing situation, ordered Lieu tenant Miguel Primo de Rivera out of the country. Last week a police escort saw him as far as Hendaye, across the Spain-France border. A third son of the fallen Dictator was serving last week with the Spanish air force in Africa, where men are men, insults insults...
...into Hate. Among Dictator Primo de Rivera's first acts was to pardon (in 1923) disgraced General Berenguer, then under sentence of 20 years' imprisonment. In 1924 the Dictator again kept the General out of jail, allowed him to spend a pleasant month in a remote Spanish castle in lieu of serving six months in prison, as did several of Berenguer's friends, for the crime of denouncing at a public banquet the Dictature...
...dedicated by the Poet Laureate to his King. Hitherto the Bridges Laureateship has been characterized by inactivity. Of all the line of laureates (which has included Dryden, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson) he has written the least official poetry. For his annual stipend of £72, and £27 in lieu of a butt of Canary wine, he has produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited the U. S. in 1924 and refused to commemorate the event...