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...seas in a staunch but hopeless attempt to sail under Hoyt's lee, was the Scotch boat Coila III, defending the Seawanhaka Cup, which was won 30 years ago by a 'British six-metre boat, never regained for the U. S. until a salute-gun boomed, a flag broke out from the staff in front of a yacht club, the Lanai crossed the line, left the sea to the toiling Coila III, the windy clanging of the gulls...
Last week, on the 510th anniversary of John Hus's death, Czecho-Slovakia celebrated her first "Nation Day" by commemmorating Hus. Up went the Hussite flag over the Presidential Castle and loud and strong were the cries from Rome. The Papal Nuncio was recalled and the Czecho-Slovak Minister to the Holy See was ordered to return to Prague. The situation had the earmarks of a first-class...
...half full of water being dug by Chinese coolies wearing tin helmets- the boy wrapped in an army blanket and covered by a weather-worn Union Jack, carried on their shoulders by four slipping stretcher-bearers. A strange scene-the great-great-grandson of Paul Revere under a British flag, and awaiting him a group of some six or eight American Army medical officers -saddened with thoughts of his father...
...clock, General Pangalos, head of the Army insurgents, who had established his troops between Athens and the seaport Piraeus, and Admiral Hajikiriakos, leader of the naval insurgents, who had hoisted his flag on board the Averoff off Piraeus, sent ultimata to Admiral Konduriotis, Provisional President of the Hellenic Republic, charging the Government with general inefficiency and claiming that they spoke for the people, which they certainly did not. The two leaders demanded the dismissal of the Government and the surrender of the Treasury, failing which they threatened to bombard the infantry in barracks, the Presidential Palace and the War Office...
...Upon all but Roald Amundsen. For planting Norway's flag upon the South Pole in 1911, he had already received the highest honor his King had to bestow...