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Many towns on the Black Sea were reported to be sliding into the water. Practically the whole south coast of the Crimea, the Russian Riviera, is affected and the once fashionable Alupka has moved three feet seawards...
...instructors, the ranking officer is Major Louis A. Craig, who graduated from West Point in 1909. His first commission was as a second lieutenant in the cavalry. Later he was shifted to the coast artillery with the rank of major. During the war, he served with the field artillery, first as a captain, and later as a major. Major Craig is a brother of Brigadier General Malin Craig, newly appointed Chief of Cavalry, who won the Distinguished Service Medal for his service in France as corps chief of staff with the second army corps of the American Expeditionary Forces...
Captain John B. Wogan and Captain William Spence are the two new officers who will complete Colonel Browning's teaching staff next year. Both men graduated from the Military Academy in 1914. Since then, Captain Wogan has served with both the coast and the field artillery, acting as a major of field artillery, during the war. Captain Spence, like Major Craig, began his military career as a second lieutenant of cavalry, transfering later to the field artillery, in which department he ranked as a major in the recent...
...native weaver from the Gold Coast of West Africa was introduced to the King and then to the Queen. He understood the position of the King well enough, but that of the Queen was entirely a mystery. Colonel Levy, General Manager of the Exhibition, explained that she was "the King's missus...
Youthful Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., fourth of his famed name, aspiring to be a newspaper builder of the nation, recently started two little gum-chewers' sheetlets on the Pacific Coast-The Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles) and The Illustrated Daily Herald (San Francisco). The young shoot of the Vanderbilt stock prepared to branch forth in a new direction with the traditional magnetism of his family. But the insidious voice of trouble raised its head. Could it be that he had not financed his venture in an entirely straight-and-narrow fashion ? Two ladies filed complaints against the Vanderbilt Newspapers...