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...southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces of Dr. Khalid Sheldrake. He was reported to have fled in defeat toward India, following the wholesale surrender of his troops...
...people of Peru, weary of the Leguias, rose up under a red-eyed little wildcat of a man named Lieut.-Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro and overthrew the government. The Leguias were thrown into jail, charged with a list of peculations long as their pedigree, a list that reached all the way to Washington where it was testified before a Senate committee that the Manhattan firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co. had paid Juan Leguia a "fee" of $415,000 for the privilege of lending $100,000,000 to Peru. All those bonds are now in default...
What really overthrew Machado, killed the officers of the Plaza Hotel, and pitched Cuba into an anarchy from which, it appears, only a brutal rule can pull her, was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1929. The very gentle ex-Senator Smoot of Utah, who alternates his campaign for literary purity with an effective defense of Western and Southern United States sugar concerns, was able in this piece of legislation largely to exclude Cuban sugar from the American market, thus in a rather short space of time ruining the island's main industry, provoking the violent unrest born of poverty which...
...without paying its bills, and these cannot be met without aid from the Wall Street bunch. This means eventually a conservative puppet party will come to power, since it will be backed by the sugar and fruit plantation owners. But how long could that party last? The forces which overthrew Machado will remain, latent perhaps if they are crushed this time, but ready, soon or late, to spring up when the occasion presents itself...
Cuba. Hurricane groped across the Bahama Bank north of Cuba, turned away from Cuba, killed seven in the Bahamas, turned again and struck at Cuba's northern hump. In Havana harbor, huge seas overthrew the Malecon sea wall, scattered stone blocks like spume, flooded the water- front six blocks inland to a depth of six feet. In full force the hurricane hit the port of Cardenas in Matanzas Province, swept a tidal wave over the city, sank a gunboat in the harbor, destroyed docks, warehouses and the railroad station, cut off water and light, killed 30, injured 100. Cardenas...