Foreign News: U. S. Mayor

Last week came tidings of that benevolent dictator, that bantam Mussolini, the diminutive yet lion-hearted President Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo of Peru, who "tips the scales at 98 pounds of dynamite and determination."

The Methodist Episcopal Board of Foreign Missions announced at New York that Dictator-President Leguía has taken it upon himself to appoint a U. S. Methodist Episcopal medical missionary, Dr. Eugene A. MacCornack, as Alcalde (Mayor) of the ancient Peruvian city of Callao, seaport to Lima. Straightway it was recalled that Dr. MacCornack has long been superintendent of the British-American...

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