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...Thanks to the perseverance and perhaps also to the prestige of the League of Nations," said Count Carton de Wiart, President of the Conference, in his final speech, "44 [Persia dropped out] States, members and nonmembers, came to the Conference. And today, in spite of 'Jonahs,' we are able to present to the world a solid structure, not built on clouds, but founded on a rock of solid realities. Reduction of armaments is not yet achieved, but an important step has been made toward it. Let us render thanks to the League of Nations...
Restricted Areas. With the object of preventing shipment of munitions to backward nations (chiefly in Africa), certain areas (including the Gulf of Persia on which many rifles are carried to the Northwest frontier) were placed in prohibitive zones. Persia, who saw her sovereignty threatened, was offended, left the Conference...
...game hunting, in which Dr. Smith is a veteran, will be a very important part of the trip. Dr. Smith, whose experience as a sportsman has been extensive, has shot tigers in Korea, China, Java, and Persia, lions, elephants and buffalo in British East Africa and Somali-land, Kadiac bears in Alaska, cougars in Sonora, and nearly every other form of big game...
...Mandalay, and thence to India, where he will visit Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Delhi, Jaipur, Anidapur, Bombay and Madras. There will be tiger and wild cattle shooting. Through Ceylon, Singapore, and Java, the party will reach the South Seas where several islands will be visited on the way to Persia...
From Russia, came reports: 1) Of an unknown seal of King Artaxerxes (I or III) of Persia, rummaged out of a museum storeroom, together with numerous coins of the Golden Horde (Tartars) who set up a dynasty in Russia in the 13th Century; 2) on the slopes of Mount Ararat (Erivan, Armenia, the head of a life-size statue of an early Armenian King, wearing what seemed to be Christian earrings; 3) of Neanderthal skeletons (fourth human era), dug also in Erivan...