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...ancient Syrian city of Antioch last week a batch of League of Nations observers huddled on their hotel balcony while the street directly before them echoed with pistol shots, wild Turkish and Syrian yells, the thud of brickbats, groans. When police finally cleared the cobbled street, one slippered rioter was dead, eight others gravely injured...
...Camera Overseas, LIFE offered six pages of foreign pictures, including a shot of a vicious Bombay rioter, another of two old Russian collectivist farmers in a bath. For its promised party-of-the-week, LIFE went with British Ambassador Sir George Clerk to a hunt at the estate of the Comte de Fels near Paris. Readers are shown the famed and wealthy guests, the small army of beaters, the luxurious luncheon which punctuated the proceedings. LIFE'S last picture in its first appearance is the enormous bag of this day's sport-row after row of lifeless hare...
...shivering blades on it. The referee dropped his rapier. Zing! Clang! M. La Chambre slashed M. Renouvin's blade aside, stuck M. Renouvin decisively in his working arm. A few seconds old, the duel was over. M. La Chambre was no assassin and M. Renouvin was only a rioter, but neither man was willing to shake hands...
Reporter Powell's wife and four-year-old son, accompanied by a maid, were courteously ushered out of the building by the mobsters. But earlier, in the tonneau of their automobile, they had seen their native chauffeur shot dead when he ignored a rioter's order to halt...
...cells, loathsome bucket system of sewage disposal, where last summer's riotings began. Less pleasant, too, is the State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., where a deadly, guard-killing outbreak took place (TIME, Oct. 14). Less pleasant also is the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., last summer's fourth rioter, where Warden T. B. White has had to pack convicts by twos and threes into one-man cells, stuff them by scores into cell-house basements...