England United With France Against German Aggression
Special cable from London reports broad English support for maintaining the entente with France and deterring German aims. The piece argues Germany fears French and British unity, notes the French armee noire in Africa as a potential force, and discusses strategic implications of Franco African troops in a European showdown.
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Germany
Agadir
Morocco
Algeria
France
Cmatter
Armee Noire
French Armee Noir of
Africa
Foreign Legion
Sahara
Berlin
Waltz Marie Brings Fame for Bertha Barnes Clinch Smith
The American woman Bertha Barnes, now Mrs Clinch Smith, formerly of Chicago, gains Parisian fame with her self composed waltz "Waltz Marie." It is her sixteenth work and becomes a favorite on boulevards cafes and drawing rooms, rivaling the earlier Paris hit Tammany.
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Paris
Clinch- Smith
Bertha Barnes
Chicago
Marie
Mixim’s
Paris Faces Arrests Over Secret Revolutionary Guards
Police move against a fledgling group calling itself the young revolutionary guard after a string of violent incidents at the Guerre Sociale, including trials with revolvers and a hostage-like gauntlet. Three guards arrested, a witness denounces the proceedings triggering the crackdown.
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Paris
Revolutionary Guard
Guerre Sociale
Revolutionary Organ
Ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid Recovers and Requests Gifts
Aug 12 report says former sultan Abdul Hamid has fully recovered from illness. In a letter to Mehmed V he asks for female slaves and birds, especially pigeons, and Mehmed V dispatches a wagonful to Salonica for him.
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Constantinople
Abdul Hamid
Mehmed V
Abdul
Yildiz
Mehmed
Salonica
France Seeks Napoleonic Return Amid Army Strains
Paris reports a growing Bonapartist following led by Victor Napoleon as France faces political instability and costly reforms. The army remains under pressure from rapid ministerial changes, with Gen Regnault and the staff planning maneuvers at St Quentin while aerial planes boost morale.
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George Dufresne
Paris
Germany
Victor Napoleon
France
England
Agadir
Napoleon
General Brun
M. Berteaux
Goiran
M. Messing
Champagne
Regnault
St. Quentin
Reputed Sphinx Like Lucie Delarue Mardrus Stirs Egypt
Egyptian archaeologists discuss the striking resemblance between Mlle Lucie Delarue Mardrus and the Sphinx of the Pharaohs. She asserts she is the reincarnation of She the sphinx model and camps near the statue challenging visitors to refute her claim. Her stance draws a large following among locals who embrace the reincarnation theory.
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Mlle
Lucie Delarue- Mardrus
Lucie
Rare spinal deformity treated by suspension at Great Ormond Street
A nine year old girl with infantile paralysis at the Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street is treated with an unusual method. She is suspended by leather loops under the arms and chin to pull the spine straight. After a month of suspension massages will accompany the process until a leather and metal jacket can be fitted for continued treatment.
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London
Great Ormond Street
W. C
Dutch Queen Plans Return Visit to Paris in Spring
Paris August 12 Queen Wilhelmina will return the visit of President Fallières by spending a few days in Paris next spring likely in May. The plan follows a royal bid for a Holland only visit, with Fallières preferring few journeys. A state visit to Holland by sea aboard the Edgar-Quinet was arranged to avoid extra land travel.
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Paris
Wilhelminia
President Fallieres
M. Fallieres
Belgium
Holland
Edgar-Quinet
France
Portugal Seeks World Belief in Stable Republic
Berlin dispatch notes Portugal touts a firm republic but European diplomats doubt it. Voters would likely back a monarchy in a referendum, driven by Catholic clergy denouncing the republic as unchristian and by distrust of republican leaders and foreign recognition delays.
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Berlin
Portugal
Manuel
Germany
England
Spain
Native Bolivian Fishing Method Uses Tree Juice
Bolivian natives on the eastern Andes slope pour the juice of a native tree onto slow water. The liquid is said to stupefy fish, making them easy to catch by hand.
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Bolivia
Andes
War scare fades as Europe tests bluff and loan gambit
Berlin reports a calm summer as tensions in the Balkans and Morocco ease. The Agadir crisis is framed as dramatic theater with Russia's 100 million mark loan to Germany signaling no war intent. England misreads the entente while Spain and France maneuver around a potential clash.
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Frederick Werner
Berlin
Europe
Balkans
Morocco
Pyrenees
France
Germany
Africa
England
Agadir
Russia
St. Petersburg
Lloyd George
Spain
Madrid
Canalejas
Germany Expels French Labor Leader From Empire
Paris Aug 12 Germany ordered the expulsion of M Yvetot secretary of the French Trade Unions and a leader of the General Labor Confederation He attended the international Labor congress in Berlin as a representative of the French movement.
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Empire
Paris
Germany
M. Yvetot
General Labor Confederation
Berlin
Thenternational
Portuguese Royalty in Paris Shoplifting Case
Five young ladies from a Portuguese noble family ruined by revolution were arrested near the opera in Paris on shoplifting charges. They confessed they had to resort to theft to support their rank, after being caught in the act.
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Paris
Mrs. Astor Shines At Glorious Goodwood Amid Engagement
Mrs Ava Willing Astor, newly divorced from Colonel Astor, enjoys social round undisturbed. At Glorious Goodwood she outshone hostesses and peers with elaborate attire, drawing attention amid a guest list of famous English and European peers.
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Colonel Astor
Madeline Talmage Force
Ava Willing Astor
Goodwood
William James
England
Europe
Priest killed in Saint-Severin rectory mystery deepens
Paris Aug. 12. A parish priest Abbe Guibault was shot in his rectory in Saint-Severin near Angouleme after receiving callers. He died refusing to name his shooter. A gun stolen from a neighbor was found in the vestibule. no suspect identity has been found.
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Paris
Saint-Severin
Angouleme
Abbe Guibault
Abbe
Guibault
Ragged Girl Buries Herself Alive After Soldier Lover Rebuff
In Grosse Wardein Hungary a girl traveled two hundred miles to visit her soldier lover. Rejected at the barracks she dug a grave, attempted to die by her own hand, but a doctor revived her and she survived the ordeal.
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Vienna
Grosse Wardein
Hungary
Black Handers take place of the Camorra in Neapolis
The Neapolitan press reports the rise of a formal black hand criminal society led by Raf Faele Nazzaro, returned from New York. The gang enforces obedience with revolvers and cudgels, terrorizing tradespeople and fighting rival factions in nightly battles that have left spectators dead or wounded.
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Criminal Society
New York
Rome
Neapolitan
Black Hand
Raffaele Nazzaro
Mattino
Napi
Russian Famine Fears Echo in Strange Superstitions
Reports from Western Siberia warn of a near famine as harvests plunge 80 percent below last year. Perm and Tomsk face total grain failures while Volga regions show 60 to 75 percent reductions. Central and western provinces expect strong yields despite overall drought.
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ST. Petersburg
Tomsk
Siberia
Ministry of the Interior
Russia
Perm
Volga
Odessa
Ministers say time to work wasted by visits in Paris
French commerce minister M. Cougba confessed at a banquet that ministers spend their days interrupted by visitors and have little chance for uninterrupted work. He noted Sundays in office rarely free, with 12 ministers and four under secretaries in a year.
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Paris
M. Cougba
Commerce
France
M. Coryba
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