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Last week the plump sausage-shaped area defended by Abd-el-Krim was severely French-fried on its convex southern exposure. Early in the week French confidence and enthusiasm, in both Paris and Morocco, reached extraordinary heights...
...Department undertook an investigation of Colonel Mitchell's statement with a view to court-martialing him. His immediate superior General Hinds, Commandant of the Eighth Corps area, including Texas where Colonel Mitchell is stationed, had the Colonel certify that the statement was authentic and then sent it off to Washington where the Adjutant General will decide on what grounds Colonel Mitchell will be tried, if at all.* The court-martial will necessarily ignore the Colonel's charges against the War and Navy Departments and confine itself simply to the question of whether he was guilty of any infraction...
...splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times . . . Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break his legs the moment he tried to move...
Subsequent continued tests at Fort Tilden resulted, after the firing of 180 rounds, in barely missing the towing plane of Lieut. William T. Atkinson, although the target trailed 2100 ft. behind it. Said he, after towing his target ten times across the firing area, "We could see the shells burst high to the right and in front of our plane." Said another flight lieutenant: "We're used to that...
...Liberia is a Negro Republic founded in 1847, situate on the west coast of Africa. Its population is estimated at 2,000,000 and its area is about 40,000 square miles. The Constitution of the country is modeled on that of the U. S., differing only slightly from it. It has a President, elected for four years; a Senate and a House of Representatives, elected for six and four years respectively. All electors must be of Negro blood and property owners. *Notorious Negro now confined at Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud...