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...telling off the first of the five seconds which the Polish code allows a duelist in which to return his opponent's fire. "Two. . . ." With an almost unbearable suspense the aides saw the Count take aim. The General had refused to shake his hand one day in the Cracow Military Club and when asked for an explanation replied that there was only one tongue in which gentlemen explained such things to each other. Thereafter-"Three . . ."- he accused Count Skrzynski of having engineered the coup of General Pilsudski, and now-"Four ..."-he waited, in a rainswept field, for-"Five. . . ." Count...
...Harvard's representation has been reduced to two groups of 15 men instead of three. The detailed itinerary for Group One has just been announced. It includes visits to Bremen, Hanover; Goettingen, Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden under the auspices of the Gernian Student Union; to Posen, Warsaw, Vilna, Lemberg, Cracow, and the Upper Silesian coal and iron fields under the auspices of the Polish National Student Union; and to Buno, Blansko, Prague, Rovensko, Pelsen, Basle, and Nuremberg under the auspices of the Czechoslovak Student Union...
...father published a review, which was suppressed; his parents were for a time in exile. Meanwhile, under an uncle's care, he was put to school in Cracow...
Last week Poland was engulfed in a general strike, with which a weak government was trying to grapple. Troops were sent against the strikers; the strikers surrounded and disarmed them; the city of Cracow, the storm center of the strike, was in darkness; troops were confined to barracks; police dared not appear on the streets; theatres, cinemas, schools were closed; armed patrols of workers tried to keep order among their more radical brethren. No news of strike negotiation was given; the situation was pregnant with unutterable gloom and vagueness...
...eleven airplanes. The eleventh machine crashed on landing, killing two city fathers and injuring a third official and the pilot. This was an unfortunate though dramatic finale to a celebration intended to advertise the Tempelhofer as the biggest airport in Europe. Almost on the same day at Cracow, Poland, a military plane lost a wing and fell through the roof of an apartment house. The gasoline tank exploded, killing a man ill in bed as well as the occupants of the airplane, and setting the house on fire...