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Despatches told that Feng's armies held last week, a line stretching roughly from Nankow to Yuchow, thus fending off their mountain sheltered base at Kalgan from the expected attack of Chang and Wu originating at Peking. General Tien Wei-chun was moving from Peking last week upon Nan-kow pass (26 miles northwest) ; and Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, Wu's principal field commander, was preparing to advance upon Yuchow (100 miles west of Peking...
Hankow, about 500 miles due west from Shanghai on the Yang-tsze-kiang River in the inland Province of Hupeh. Despite the efforts of Tuchun Hsia Yao-nan to maintain quiet, an ugly situation rapidly developed. Foreign women, children and missionaries left the city on the eve of an attack by rioters on the British Volunteer Armory and Japanese shops. The British used machine-guns on the rioters; many were killed and wounded...
...counter to British policy in Egypt for vital and obvious reasons. Zaghlul Pasha would probably, if elected, have hesitated to put any of his policies into effect, for the simple reason that to do so could mean only war with Britain. But as Premier he would have been persona nan grata to the London Government, because, as before, he would undoubtedly carry on propaganda through his Nationalist organization, the Wadf, against the "usurper" of Egyptian rights...
Roseanne by Nan Bagby Stevens...
Through the efforts of Mr. F. W. C. Hersey and Mr. L. J. A. Mencier, of the English and French Departments of the University respectively, a special free matinee, featured by the appearance of Mme, Eugenie Nan, of "The Crowded Hour" Company, will be given at the Park Square Theatre this afternoon at 3.45 o'clock. This performance will be for the benefit of the Ligue Des Femmes des Professions Liberales" and the Association Des Artistes Dramatiques of France...