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...Treaty of Algeciras (1906). France and Germany were both developing vast commercial interests there. As last week, Germans were accused of secret gunrunning to Moroccan tribesmen when France marched in and occupied Fez. As last week, Sidi Fra Achmed Schaefer Arksis was supposed to be involved. Only 100 mi. from Ifni, where the former warship Delphin was theoretically bound last week, is the harbor of Agadir. There in 1911 anchored the German warship Panther "to protect German interests." For many days war was very close...
...little states on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania-would hardly seem a menace to anybody. But they are close to the heart of Soviet Russia. Russia's door to the Baltic is a coast line on the Gulf of Finland only 300 mi. long, and the three little states overlook that channel down the Baltic. The least Russia can do is to be a little friendlier to them than anybody else is. Last week Maxim Litvinoff, roly-poly Commissar for Foreign Affairs, met in Moscow with the plenipotentiaries of the three. They took...
...thousands of fissures in the wrinkled western shore of Norway is the Stor Fjord, an S-shaped water that snakes through the wall-sided mountains for 35 mi. before it branches into two smaller fjords. One of these is the Nordals Fjord and 15 mi. farther inland, on the narrow sills of shore, are the two tiny villages of Tafjord and Fjoraa. For months the villagers have looked up at a great overhanging jut of rock that was beginning to crack of its own weight. Some day, they knew, it would fall and splash into the fjord...
Meanwhile regularly scheduled plane service between Germany and South America is also to be carried on via the S. S. Westphalen, stationed in the South Atlantic, 820 mi. off British Gambia. To eliminate the mid-ocean stop, test flights will soon be made with flying boats capable of covering the 1,864-mi. with cargo...
Death clutched the wings of six Army flyers last week, but his hand had lost its skill. When their plane became disabled at 6,000 ft., two Army flyers bound for Washington from Dayton scorned their parachutes, pushed their wobbling ship along 100 mi. in near-stalling position. With two brace wires broken and the right elevator surface dropping at a 20-degree angle, they made a precarious but successful landing at Boiling Field...