Word: seaport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laurence H. Kearney, U. S. citizen, charged with leading a plot to smuggle arms into China, was arrested at the seaport of Ching-Hai. Bail was allowed at $5,000. The warrant for his arrest was issued by U. S. Consular agents on July...
...expedition directed by Baron Carl of Uggla, has excavated the medieval city of Old Lodose, near Gothenburg. This city was an important seaport and is thought to have flourished for upwards of a thousand years before it was destroyed in the middle of the Fifteenth Century in the wars between the Swedes and the Danes. A church almost as large as the Gothenburg Cathedral has been unearthed as well as several smaller churches, a hospital, a castle, city walls, private houses, armor, tools, coins and weapons...
Another expedition led by, Dr. Sixten Strombom has excavated the city of New Lodose, successor to the old city, and the immediate predecessor of Gothenburg as Sweden's western seaport. These various archaeological undertakings throw considerable light on Scandinavian history and culture, especially in the medieval period. Dr. Sarauw's work is important in the prehistory of Sweden's west coast, which is one of the richest sections in Sweden from the archaeologist's viewpoint...
Memel is a seaport on the Baltic that formerly belonged to Germany. After the war it was put under the administration of the League of Nations, but was seized last month by the Lithuanians, allegedly at the instigation of Russia...
...Minister, and the Secretary of the Bolivian Legation, the former on " vacation " and the latter on "business." It is feared that the recent refusal of Bolivia to attend the Pan-American Congress on account of Chile's declining to reconsider the Treaty of 1904 (and give Bolivia a seaport) is about to cause a diplomatic rupture between the two countries...