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...cypress and liveoak river bottoms of South Carolina's coastal fringe near Charleston are festooned with Spanish moss and legend. Here Generals Sumter, Greene and Francis Marion ("The Swamp Fox") harried Tarleton and Lord Rawdon at the Revolution's end. Here Sir Peter Parker's fleet was defeated at Sullivan's Island by General Moultrie, whose name was given to one of the forts near which the Civil War began three generations later. On forested uplands running back from the warm sea stood some of the South's finest oldtime plantations. Along the rivers...
Every ten years saw a diplomatic somersault in the relations of the two countries. After the Crimean War, when the peace treaty forbade Russia a fleet on the Black Sea, the Tsar lined up with Germany. After the Franco-Prussian War, victorious Germany backed Russia in denouncing the treaty. But when England and Russia were at odds again over Turkey, Germany backed...
...start for a two mile race, while thunderheads were threatening overhead. At the mile rain curtained the boats as they rowed down the course, Harvard out ahead with the largest early lead of any contest this season. Syracuse was second, followed by Penn, with the Big Red trailing the fleet...
Last week the three powers stood firm, not only at Shanghai but also at the little International Settlement on the Island of Kulangsu, near Amoy. There the Japanese landed 126 marines. Soon Vice Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander-in-Chief of the British China Fleet, served the Japanese with an ultimatum to clear out. Sir Percy was not speaking for Britain alone but for France and, more important, for the U. S. Throughout the war the Japanese have been considerably more respectful to the U. S., which is a big nation with a big fleet more free to prowl...
...Navy has appointed Captain Keppler as commanding officer of a new fleet of heavy destroyers which will be put into operation soon. The destroyers which he will command are the heaviest the Navy has ever built...