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Lone Surrender, At Fenàroa, 350 miles away, Italian General Bastico had set up the headquarters of the Third Army Corps, whose duty it is to protect the long Italian line back to the coast. In his tent last week he sat reading dispatches, wishing he were further south enjoying the fun in Addis Ababa. Up to his tent rode a bedraggled, bearded native on muleback carrying a twisted twig and a scrap of white cloth. Stiffly dismounting, the blackamoor bowed low to the ground in token of submission. It was Ras Seyoum, onetime ruler of Tigre Province...
Chicago. Bernard Roa, Mexican, 16 bullet scars on back, wanted for murder. Roa broke out of Joliet prison, killed a deputy warden. Warning: "Dangerous...
Santa Ysabel. Señor Rodrigo Octavio, the Brazilian President of the U. S.-Mexican Special Claims Commission, held with the support of the Mexican Commissioner, Fernando Gonzales Roa, that no indemnity shall be paid to the relatives of 15 U. S. mining operatives massacred in January, 1916, near Santa Ysabel, Chihuahua, Mexico. Judge Ernest B. Perry, the U. S. Commissioner, being thus outvoted, rendered a dissenting minority opinion. The commission forthwith adjourned until September...
...date. Last week the press was as optimistic as ever: The Journal of Commerce: " Before the end of next week it is expected that the two American Commissioners . . . will report the successful conclusion of their negotiations . . . " Public Ledger (Philadelphia) : "The American and Mexican Commission will sign the Warren-Roa accord Saturday (Aug. 11)." New York American: "Mexican accord waits on Coolidge-Approval on recognition expected by Tuesday...
Meanwhile, John Barton Payne and Charles B. Warren, U. S. Commissioners, are in closet conference with the representatives of the Mexican Government, Senores Ramon Ross and Gonzales Roa. The conference is reported to be making " excellent progress." All the delegates are jubilant over a prospective and proverbial happy ending...