The Painted Cage (2012)
“Lasker 10, Steinitz 22, drawn 5.
An amnesty in connection with the death of the Empress Dowager has been announced and will be a measure of some magnitude. Persons lying under sentence of death will have their punishments changed to life-imprisonment. Life-prisoners will become term-prisoners and term-prisoners will have their periods shortened by one-fourth. Prisoners who have already served three-fourths of their sentences will be immediately released. More than ten thousand convicts are ...expected to emerge from jail in the last category.
Telephone wires throughout Tokyo have been damaged by heavy snow. The Telephone Call Company despatched a large number of workmen to repair them but, as they were unable to do the work with the necessary expedition, the engineers of the First Army Division were called upon for assistance.
The King of Korea has formally consented to the exhumation and further mutilation of the bodies of the two Cabinet Ministers who were so cruelly done to death in the streets of Seoul last February.MoreLess
An amnesty in connection with the death of the Empress Dowager has been announced and will be a measure of some magnitude. Persons lying under sentence of death will have their punishments changed to life-imprisonment. Life-prisoners will become term-prisoners and term-prisoners will have their periods shortened by one-fourth. Prisoners who have already served three-fourths of their sentences will be immediately released. More than ten thousand convicts are ...expected to emerge from jail in the last category.
Telephone wires throughout Tokyo have been damaged by heavy snow. The Telephone Call Company despatched a large number of workmen to repair them but, as they were unable to do the work with the necessary expedition, the engineers of the First Army Division were called upon for assistance.
The King of Korea has formally consented to the exhumation and further mutilation of the bodies of the two Cabinet Ministers who were so cruelly done to death in the streets of Seoul last February.MoreLess
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