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...controlled the nearby island of Honan. The Yünnanese generals ordered the Kuo Mintang to cease movements of troops under penalty. The Kuo Mintang retorted by denouncing the Yünnanese generals for insubordination, dismissed them. War between the two factions began. Peking. A large students' proces- sion was the only open manifestation of popular sympathy at Peking. The students paraded the streets shouting: "Down with imperialism!" "Down with the religion of Jesus!" "Kill all British and Japanese!" The Chinese Government addressed a note to the representatives of the Foreign Powers in Peking protesting against the shooting...
...When that Conference ended, the public, I think, gathered the impres- sion that equality in naval equipment between Great Britain and America was assured and that American superiority over Japan at the ratio of five to three was fixed for the next ten years. I do not charge that this impression was the result of any intentional misrepresentation. But the American public is entitled to know that that Conference dealt in no way with modern cruisers, with submarines or the auxiliaries of a fleet; that, against 44 modern cruisers owned by Great Britain and 25 by Japan, the United States...
...that the swift rise in stock prices this summer is over, discus- sion as to who made money out of it is the order of the day. Chief among those mentioned is W. C. Durant, onetime automobile manufacturer and inveterate bull speculator in stocks. Mr. Durant is said to have been the chief beneficiary in the meteoric rise of Cast Iron Pipe, to the tune of about $2 million. He is also said to have carried 25,000 shares of Southern Railway from the 30's to the 50's, as well as to have had heavy operations...
Colonel James A. Logan, U. S. observer with the Reparations Commis sion, commented upon the appointment...
...baby, although a commoner, will be sixth in line of succes sion to the British Throne. His elder brother, grandson of King George, is known as Master George Henry Hubert Lascelles. When his father succeeds to the Earldom of Harewood, he and his brother will be able to prefix Honorable to their names...