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...shots were fired more than two years ago when an Annamite garrison at Yen Bay on the China frontier mutinied and killed their French officers. Since then secret agents have discovered Communist "cells" in almost every native battalion, in almost every village. France smote hard. French troops and a regiment of the Foreign Legion were rushed from Syria. Mme Guillotine raised her gaunt arms in the public squares at Hanoi and Saigon. It was revealed last week that in the past two years more than 700 heads have fallen, have been stuck, as warning trophies, on spikes about the city...
...Colchester, Edward of Wales reviewed the First Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, of which he is Colonel-in-Chief, last week. With buttons shined and a large sabre strapped to waist, he handed newly embroidered standards to two kneeling subalterns while the drums rolled. After these ceremonies he adjourned to the Town Hall to sup oysters at Colchester's annual Oyster Feast...
Prime novelty of last year's concert season was the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus (TIME, Nov. 17). The Don Cossacks, singers in a regiment stranded eleven years ago in a Bolshevik prison camp, won every U. S. audience which heard them with their perfect unity, their stunning crescendos, their fragile pianissimos. The U. S. likes its music obviously defined. The Don Cossacks sing very loudly or very softly, very high and very low. Boxofficially their short tour was last season's outstanding success. Last week from Manhattan they began a second tour. From New England...
President Garfield, in office from March 4, 1881, to July 2, 1881 when he was shot, never made a speech of any sort to the G. A. R. While campaigning in 1880, he made a "Boys in Blue Speech." an "Army of Cumberland Speech," "Reunion with His Old Regiment" and "Inauguration of Soldiers and Sailors Monument" (Painesville, Ohio). In none of these speeches is there any resemblance however remote to President Hoover's Detroit speech to the American Legion...
...First to call itself a National Guard was New York's 7th Regiment, now socially distinguished and officially called the 107th infantry...