Word: vias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five minutes after the arrival of His Majesty at Kandahar the royal standard was broken out from the Palace staff, exactly as if nothing had happened. Next day an airplane, heavy laden, arrived at Kandahar from Kabul via Peshawar, British India; and out slumped Big Brother Inayatullah. For him were flown no royal standards. Therefore the double abdication of last week appeared as nothing more than a successful double cross to outwit Bandit Bacha Sakao, and permit King Amanullah to stage a coup d' escape...
According to what The Times has heard from Cologne via Paris, the unfortunate Belgian priests who refused to ring the church bells when Antwerp was taken have been sentenced to hard labour...
According to information to the Corriére della Sera from Cologne via London, it is confirmed that the barbaric conquerors of Antwerp punished the unfortunate Belgian priests for their heroic refusal to ring the church bells by hanging them as living clappers to the bells with their heads down...
Such were circumstantial details flashed from Mukden via Japan to the U. S. Since the Japanese are no friends of Young Chang, confirmation must be awaited. Quite another story which seeped out of Mukden was that "Ludendorff" Yang was unmasked in a plot to oust Young Chang, discovered to have "misappropriated" staggering sums, and presently shot as a traitor before a firing squad...
...Russian missions in Chinese Turkestan and in Mongolia. The two Koslov missions of 1907 and 1922 have revealed to us the extent of the Hsi-hsia literature, in the late middle ages, today absolutely unknown, and the importance of the relations between Western Asia and the Far East via Upper Mongolia at the beginning of the Christian Era. As to the missions in Chinese Turkestan, they have shown, unexpectedly, that Chinese Turkestan, now inhabited by a Turkish population of Mohammedans, was untill the end of the first millennium A. D. the area of a Buddhist culture, developed by a population...