Sailors remained on guard at the French settlement after violence in which 22 Chinese people were killed and 50 others wounded.
Author: THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
1948: Paris ‘Métro’ Gets New Name, But Subway-Goers Won’t Use It
With an eye toward expansion, the company in charge of the French capital’s transport system will be renamed.
1973: Moscow Walkout by Chinese Envoy
The official, Ma Lieh, left his seat during a speech at the Kremlin by a Soviet Politburo member, a sign of the strained relations between Moscow and Beijing.
1948: Egypt Starts Power Project
Laying the foundation stone of a hydroelectric project that would have ambitious successors.
1923: Blaze Destroys Army Buildings
The fire gutted orderly rooms and stores of the Fifth Division.
1898: Anglo-Siberian Trade
A Russian tariff on imports to Siberia was under discussion.
1922: Last War Prisoners Gone
France released its last five German prisoners four years after World War I came to an end.
1947: Rail Walkout in Marseilles Halts Traffic
The number of strikers in the French port city reached 100,000, with thousands of passengers stranded and communication disrupted.
1897: India Frontier Fighting
A skirmish between British-led colonial forces and Pashtuns in what would later become northwestern Pakistan, near Afghanistan, left 10 dead and 53 wounded.
1922: Ex-Kaiser to Marry Princess Hermine
Wilhelm II, who abdicated as emperor of Germany in the midst of defeat in World War I, had become a widower in 1921.