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...smoke and steam at roaring forced draft to perceptibly darken the "blue." Behind lay British East Africa and the small, busy port of Dar-Es-Saalam, where Edward of Wales had taken ship. Ahead, beyond the Red Sea, beyond the Mediterranean, beyond Europe and the Channel lay the beloved Sovereign of an Empire. Radio flashes told that pleurisy had been followed by pneumonia, complicated by Bright's disease...
Despatches from the Albanian capital of Tirana, last week, extravagantly rumored that over 300 minor and major blood feuds are now pending against well guarded King Ahmed Zogu. It was also rumored that the Sovereign had broken off the engagement which has bound him since childhood to wed Lela, luscious 23-year-old daughter of the great Albanian tribal chieftain Shevket Bey Verlatzi. Such a jilt, if actually perpetrated, can scarcely fail to engender another deadly blood feud...
...almost half the territory which is legally Ecuadorian is actually within a "sphere of influence" impudently maintained by adjoining and militant Peru. Here again, as in Colombia, the factor of altitudes is vital and decisive. Gigantic parallel ranges of mountains, many over four miles high, cut off the nominally sovereign scions of Spain in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, from the vas' hinterland tracts which Peru has quietly and simply taken. Quito perches at an altitude of two miles, has a Savoy Hotel, steep streets, abundant flowers, about one hour of rain almost every day in the year...
With stark, brutal candor the Soviet State announced, last week, through its official news organ Isvestia, that savage and murderous resistance to the Soviet Power is now being made by members of the Kulak or "Rich Peasant" class-the class most relentlessly taxed by Moscow's sovereign Proletariat...
...Wang said: "We have sent identic notes to all the powers concerned asking them to move to abolish extraterritoriality as soon as possible. I am unable to divulge the text of the note, but wish it made clear that China is urgently desirous of early assumption of her sovereign rights in all parts of the country...