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†Epidemiologists insist that world-wide plagues of disease begin in Asia and then work towards Europe and the Americas. So the League of Nations has placed health watchers in the principal Asiatic coast cities to report by wireless the local health status. These reports are compiled and then relayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Influenza | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Mogul v. Cadet. At the moment, the "Presidency" of China is a matter of insignificance in a land so torn by anarchy that only the military are of account. Last week the Pekingese War Lord Chang Tso-lin, temperamentally a cruel, picturesque, luxurious "Great Mogul" began his expected offensive against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Best of Evils | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

That at Astoria, L. I., two Chinamen-Wei Yoh Wu and Pin Ling Shen-were discovered by the press. They had been studying in the U. S. for several years and were about ready to go back to China to set on foot there a radio industry which might quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Italo-Hibernian | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Portents. In diplomatic circles the belief was current that the Odessa conference was concerned with arriving at an understanding whereby Turkey will be able to apply for membership in the League of Nations without violating certain treaty obligations by which she is bound to Soviet Russia. The wild guesses and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: T. & T. | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Died. Aimée Dostoievsky, 56, daughter of Feodor Dostoievsky; in Bolzano, Italy; of tuberculosis. She had written a penetrating sutdy of her novelist father, whose death in 1881 was not recorded in the Occidental press, to which he was then unkown.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

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