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With the alarmist, whither-are-we drifting attitude of Mr. Blake toward your recent editorials, may I take issue? Your editorial page and in fact the whole paper has shown more alertness, vigor, and originality than at any time in the past six years. Mr. Blake must be accustomed to rather dull and obvious editorial fare so to condemn intelligent journalism exercising a legitimate right of leadership. Very truly yours, L. B. Young...
General Sarrail, the recalled French High Commander, was reported to have got through to Beirut on his way to Paris, whither he has been summoned to justify his ruthless methods against the Syrians. And the U. S. destroyers Coblan and Lamson arrived at Beirut to protect American interests. Several thousand refugees from Damascus, also at Beirut, were reported to be greatly alarmed lest famine should beset the relatives whom they had left behind...
...psychological moment it was only necessary to burst in upon Zaniboni, and to cause the arrest of Capello at Turin, whither he had fled. The police specifically charged General Capello with being the liaison officer between antiFascists in Italy and antiFascists in France. The latter group, it was said, had raised 150,000 lire ($7,500.00) as a "Liberty Loan" to be spent in causing the death of Mussolini and the fall of Fascism...
Died. A few hours after birth, a second child born to Irene Castle (Mrs. Frederic McLaughlin) ; at a Chicago hospital, whither Mrs. McLaughlin had been taken after a fall from her horse...
...ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, was to proceed at once with their heavy bag back to civilization, via Russian Turkestan and the Caspian Sea, collecting as he went. They, the hunters, with a small, light-geared party would dash once more into the Pamir Mountains to the northward, whither they had started last month but turned back when they found that the special object of their arduous climb to "the rooftree of the world," the fabulous ovis poli (Marco Polo sheep), was shedding his summer coat and in no fit condition to be shot and brought home...