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...consideration from the International University Cruise Committee, which is organizing the University Afloat for American students to leave New York next September on the steamer Aurania, owned and managed by the Cunard Line. The plan is already under way and if cooperation can be established with the students in Pekin and Canton, the Chinese Floaing University will also be attempted...
...Canton government is sewn through from top to bottom with able young men who received their preparation in the United States. Only three years ago the Canton government like its sickly rival at Pekin was in financial confusion. Today, in spite of almost insuperable difficulties in the way, the budget balances, the armies are well paid, large sums are spent in effective propaganda. A Harvard man did that...
...swearing, the manure piles, the pigs in the back-yards of French peasant cottages--all these hark back to former efforts. The opening scenes in Pekin and the Philippines started the picture in an extremely fine manner. The happy-go-lucky life of Quirt and Flagg among the women of the town was vividly rendered. In fact few domestic pictures have been so full of well-handled and sensuous scenes as was this one. From the Philippines the picture jumps to France, and Flagg, now a captain, is in the throes of another love affair from which he will ultimately...
...months Chang has marched 600 miles; and although his government has not yet been recognized by the powers, it is at present the most influential in China. I think that Europe will have to recognize this Canton government sooner or later; and when this takes place, the present phantom Pekin government will vanish entirely...
Captain Dollar arrived in Boston on Monday, on the President Hayes, one of his ships, from a business and inspection tour of the world that has taken him to 462 ports. In China, he penetrated the interior in a trip from Pekin to Hankow, a distance of 600 miles, despite warnings that he might encounter difficulties arising out of the oivil...