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Justly bewildered observers resented the incoherence of the narrative. Dug from the worried contents as best it can be, it is this: A miner in a West Virginia coal town breaks jail. He bayonets a soldier of the invading companies sent to subdue strike disturbances by martial law. Pursued, he finds momentary safety in a mine shaft and there assaults a little Jewish maiden. He is captured, blinded, hanged. His mother, the girl and her father are clutched by the Ku Klux, rescued by agitators. The murderer returns sightless and amalgamates himself with the girl, about to be a mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 26, 1925 | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

Last week, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur appointed a Board of Inquiry to investigate how this secret information escaped into the press. If the Board so recommends, court martial proceedings will be instituted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Naval Inquiry | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...later, a cinema proprietor was imprudent enough to show a film based on one of Ibanez's novels. As the title flashed onto the screen, the audience hissed and booed, shouted long and hoarsely Viva el Rey; then, they insisted upon the national anthem being played; and, as the martial chords were let loose from the orchestra, the people sang almost passionately the Marcha Real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: El Rey Alfonso | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

Sadoul. But the greatest news of the day, for Frenchmen at least, was the arrest of Jacques Sadoul. Once the member of a French Mission to Russia, Captain Sadoul had become so enamoured of Bolshevism that he deserted to the Bolshevik ranks. In 1919, a Paris court martial condemned him to death in absense for treason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Week | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

...Khartum, three officers connected with the recent mutiny in the Sudan (TIME, Dec. 1, 8) were shot by order of a general court-martial. A fourth was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. In Cairo, as a result of a Zaghlulist petition to the King, dissolution of Parliament was considered certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Going | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

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