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...from these reported phone-calls and telegrams; but when, next day, a number of Chinamen were shot down, singly, and for no apparent reason, in widely separated parts of the U. S., typewriters stuttered, and a frightening word began to boom in the headlines of even the conservative papers: TONG...
...Aquitania (Cunard)?Sir Alfred Robbins, head of the Council of Freemasons in Great Britain; E. Francis Hyde, onetime Vice President of the Central Trust Co.; Bernard Gallant, proprietor of the Club Gallant, Manhattan restaurant recently padlocked by Prohibition enforcement officers; Ho Kom Tong, Chinese banker bound for London to be knighted by George, R. I.; Harry Pilcer, onetime dancing partner of Gaby Deslys; Miss M. Carey Thomas, President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr...
...players, except Mr. Darney have rather inconsequential parts, which they take well enough. Mr. Darney, of course, is the villain; supposedly he is a two-faced, smiling, Chinese-American, on one hand the suave owner of a chain of chop suey restaurants,--on the other the sinister tong leader, a religious fanatic and altogether a dangerous man to trifle with. His make-up is inescapably ridiculous, but it should merely emphasize his deadly real nature. Dr. Darney however falls into the spirit of his clothes, and becomes a clown entirely, instead of only on the surface. There...
...Prinie '15, of Springfield; A. E. Restarick '15, of Honolulu, Hawaii; C. H. Smith '15, of Cambridge; H. Thomas 3M., of Wollaston; N. L. Torrey '15, of Bedford; E. L. Tiffany uC., of Dayton, O.; B. H. Torrance '17, of Atlanta, Ga.; R. T. Wee uC., of Hu-yang, Tong Hsein, Ho-non, China; F. B. Withington '15, of Honolulu, Hawaii; L. O. Wright '14, of Chihuahua, Mexico; Z. Zee '14, of Shanghai, China...
...Tong Ho and Kwong, Chinese students who lived in Northampton, Mass., for some time, and who were lately recalled home, write that the reports concerning the imprisonment of the recalled students are true. The boys are placed in confinement at Shanghai and so ill-treated as to excite the indignation of resident foreigners and missionaries. The primary cause of this treatment was the false reports of the Chinese officials in this country, which were aggravated by the avarice of subordinate officials at Shanghai, who sought their own personal gain at the boys' expense, and in one case ran off with...