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...landscape painter that Edward Bruce was taken to London with the U. S. Delegation. Onetime associate of the great Manhattan law firm of Cravath. de Gersdorff. Swaine & Wood, he set up an independent practice in the Philippines, bought and operated the Manila Times, was retained by many a U. S. firm, did much business in China. His special knowledge of silver and the monetary problems of the Orient accounted for his official if not his artistic presence in London...
...Guam Island six months ago came 112 Japanese laborers on six-month permits. When the permits ran out Guam's Governor, U. S. Navy Captain Edmund Spence Root, refused to renew them according to Tokyo's Kokumin Shimbnn. Somebody appealed to the Japanese Consul General at Manila. Nevertheless the 112 were deported on Governor Root's "outrageous order...
...Naval Academy he played baseball, football. Graduated in 1895, he was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet. During the Philippine insurrection he distinguished himself by going ashore in the dead of night, wading through a swamp and making a sketch from a tree of an enemy camp. After Manila he spent some time in Central America "watching revolutions. ' During the War he trained officers at Annapolis. Admiral Standley has had plenty of experience for his new job in handling for two years the Navy's new instruments, its Treaty Cruisers. He is also a gunnery expert. Of medium height...
...stock passed 200- only stock quoted at that figure on the New York Exchange in more than a year. * His militant peak, however, was when he ordered his London man to sink a steamer in the Suez Canal to keep the Spanish fleet fr.om going after Admiral Dewey at Manila...
...retiring Governor-General of the Philippines, has notified the Museum of Comparative Zoology that he has obtained two specimens of the rare Philippine Buffalo known as Tamaro, for the museum. The Tamaro is only found in the dense jungles of the island of Mindoro. Mr. Roosevelt Returned to Manila with the specimens after a sixty hour trip by aeroplane...