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...main facts of the situation seem to be that Cuba's railway troubles are caused by the Island's attenuated shape. It is cheaper for sugar companies to build a short road to the coast and put their sugar directly aboard ship than to patronize the " public" railways which run lengthwise of tile country, whose freight rates are expensive and whose service is inadequate. The Tarafa bill would improve the railways at the expense of the Cuban sugar industry. As Colonel Tarafa himself pointed out, Americans are about equally heavily interested in both industries. In Cuba it is sometimes said...
...problems connected! with the Port of Fiume,* Italy would1 reserve her " full liberty of action." The Treaty of London (1915) promised Italy a large area of continental Dalmatia. After the War there arose a conflict of interest between Yugo-Slavia and Italy. Yugo-Slavia wanted the Dalmatian coast and Italy was left in a quandary as to whether she would hold out for her rights under the Treaty of London or accept the Port of Fiume, which had not been promised to her, but which she then claimed. The question was further complicated by the action of the Italian poet...
...only two minutes long. The " belt of totality " of the coming eclipse will be about 100 miles wide. It will pass in a wide curve across the Pacific southeasterly from Kamchatka, touching the mainland of the U. S. at only two points?Point Concepción (on the California coast just above Santa Barbara) and the vicinity of San Diego at the extreme Southwest corner of the state. Thence it sweeps diagonally across Mexico and Yucatan and on out into the Caribbean and Atlantic, crossing some of the West Indies. The Santa Catalina Islands, off the Southern California coast, are directly...
Some time ago a British ship, the Marion L. Mosher, was caught by a coast guard cutter trying to land liquor on Long Island, the ship was chased and actual seizure took place outside the three-mile limit. Ambassador Geddes objected and the ship was released on a $20,000 bond, furnished by a surety company, that the Marion L. Mosher would land her cargo of liquor at St. John, New Brunswick. She landed at St. John, but without her cargo. The surety company refused to pay the bond or the ground that the original seizure of the vessel...
Excepting Mile. Lenglen's retreat before the fury of Mrs. Mallory's play in 1921, no national women's finals has been so decisive in a decade. The Pacific Coast champion's strokes struck like lightning? never in the spot where her opponent waited. Her second serve smarted as sharply as her first. Her incredible ability to cover court served as an immovable defence...