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When the telephone officials in Mexico Gity decided that inhabitants of the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mex., would have to pay 5? extra to call the citizens of Laredo, Tex., the inhabitants of Nuevo Laredo became annoyed with the telephone company and took thought for a revenge. Three hundred of them, last week, removed their receivers from their hooks and left them there, thus paralyzing the service...
...much as a plate or saucer had been moved. There was the table at which Mexico's one-armed hero had sat down to luncheon, beaming and bowing amid plaudits. Next to his blood-stained bullet-riddled chair was that upon which had sat Governor Aaron Saenz of Nuevo Leon, conversing jovially with Obregon...
Statesmen of all the Americas journeyed last week to La Habana, the ancient, the rich and golden, the fair and queenly Cuban city of 500,000 souls. Last week she became again what the Spanish conquerors called her, La Llave del Nuevo Mundo "The Key of the New World." Down narrow streets, through which once swaggered the conquistadors, modern statesmen strolled with ingratiating mien, at that same Palace in La Habana from which lorded "Captains General" in the proud name of Spain, there stopped last week, briefly and peaceably, Calvin Coolidge, El Presidente De Los Estados Unidos. The Pan-American...
Order was again established with the arrival of a strong detachment of marines from nearby Pueblo Nuevo...
...Krim's former general headquarters at Ajdir, became aware that the Riffian war lord had furnished himself with many of the commonplaces of European existence. A French-made telephone was discovered, in good working order, and was promptly connected up with the Spanish base at Morro Nuevo. In a room filled with maps and various documents were neat-filed clippings from Spanish, French and German newspapers. At Abd-el-Krim's residence, a short distance away, was found an extensive library containing numerous works on international law. And a hospital of two rooms fitted up with modern surgical...