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With trouble brewing around Shanghai, ten warships were sent to the harbor to watch over the inhabitants of the city and its outlying area. Rear Admiral David Murray Anderson, of the British Navy, was designated Commander-in-Chief of all foreign vessels: four American, three British, three Japanese...
...means must be relied on, an adequate aerial defense against airplanes and dirigibles would be an effective countermeasure. The carrying-loads of air vessels and their radius of action are also limited. But among the smaller nations of Europe these limitations are not as important as in a great area such...
...Morrow, of the Canal Zone, brother of Dwight W. Morrow (a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co.), set aside Barro Colorado Island, one of the group, as a natural preserve for the wild life of the region. The island is some six square miles in area, lies only about two miles from the Isthmian Railway...
British Pledge. Premier MacDonald informed Premier Herriot that Britain would not evacuate the Cologne area, held since 1919, unless and until Germany had shown her good faith in discharging her obligations under the Experts' Plan...
...acres. Among South American countries, Brazil has taken the lead as a cotton producer, yet Argentina has 14,000,000 acres available for the crop. But all these new cotton territories face serious difficulties. In the upper African districts, irrigation is the problem. In Brazil, the cotton area is in the interior valleys where transportation is poor. In Argentina, the chief drawbacks are labor shortage, insect pests and high freight rates. Extensive areas in Sind and Punjab (India) will require irrigation before cotton can be grown there sucessfully...