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Last week, however, news came from Paris that Unamuno had been rescued by Le Quotidien, Paris Radical journal, which had fitted up a ship to go to Fuerteventura. After an adventurous voyage the ship, under command of M. Henri Dumay, directeur of the Progrès Civique, arrived at its destination and effected, under terrible risks, the rescue...
During the past week, matters referring to the transfer of Consulates were enlivened by General Giebov, Monarchist, with 30 trusty Cossacks at his command, who entered the Shanghai Consulate to take possession. M. Karakhan, Russian representative in China, protested to Foreign Minister Wellington Koo. M. Koo proceeded to think of some one to whom he might protest
...Frederick Field, K.C.B., Admiral in command of the squadron that paid a three-day visit to San Francisco during the past week, telegraphed from his flagship, H. M. S. Hood, greatest battle cruiser afloat, that all the ships under his command would have their liquor stores sealed during the visit, as an act of courtesy to the American people...
...idea of this cruise of the "Nereus" with a crew made up entirely of college students, was conceived some three months ago by Captain B. W. Joy and Lieutenant Commander John McCracken, who are to share the command of the vessel during the three months cruise It is the first time that such a trip has ever been undertaken, and the response among seafaring college men has been quick in the various colleges of the East where recruiting stations have been opened. The maximum capacity for the cruise is 100 berths, and already a crew of over...
...establishment of the unit at Harvard. Next year he will do service work at Fort Sill, Captain Perry has spent two years at Cambridge, and two years at the unit in Yale. His year of active service will take him to Camp Benning, Georgia, where he will be in command of a Field Artillery battery...