Elevated from Brigadier to Major-General oon. SPECIAL SeaviCe Washington, July 14, President Hoover has signed an onder promoting Brigadier-General Smedley Butler, recently stationed in North Ghina, to the rank of Major-General.
In signing the promotion, Prosident Hoover recalled when he and his wife were besieged in Tientsin during the course of the Boxer uprising.
Gereral Butler, then a second Higutenant in the Marines, arrived wich a small detachment of Marines the first relief force, the President Federation of Master Cotton Spinners have accepted the suggestion made by Sir Horace Wilson, Permanent. Secretary of the Labour Ministry, to resume joint discussions fon the subject of the wages reduc-3S proposed by the employers. Therefore, a joint meeting of representatives of employers and employ-'The Ministry of Labour announces} ed in the cotton industry will be held in Manchester to-morrow.—Reuter.
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