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Herr Koenig knew that the Italian rifles must be returned to Italy? Director Seefehlner had arranged that carloads of the disputed weapons were to go back to Italy by Wiener-Neustadt. Wiener-Neustadt is but 20 mi. from Hungary. If the sealed freight cars containing the rifles were switched in the middle of the night at Wiener-Neustadt to a branch line running to Sopron, Hungary, there unloaded, resealed with forged seals, switched back again and forwarded empty to Italy, there would be 150,000 schillings ($21,000) in it for the Austrian railway union. It would also establish...
Each stirring announcement was followed by a hot denial from the country supposed to have been injured. Brazil, the big neutral adjacent to Leticia, sent a commission to investigate the only victory that seemed authentic: Colombia's capture from Peru of the town of Tarapaca, 100 mi. north of Leticia. Boasting of this victory, Colombians claimed that "80 Peruvian soldiers fled from Tarapaca into the jungle where they are starving. Every few days a famished Peruvian comes out of the jungle and begs permission to surrender...
...winch while sounding the Caribbean and adjacent Atlantic, Eldridge Reeves Johnson's yacht Caroline put into San Juan, P. R. last week. Immediately Dr. Paul Bartsch, Smithsonian naturalist, sped ashore to report the discovery of the greatest known crack in earth, a deep of 44,000 ft. (8.33 mi.) just north of Puerto Rico. Also off Puerto Rico is the Nares Deep (27,972 ft., or 5.30 mi.), greatest previously known hole in the Atlantic.* Both deeps lie in a lively seismic zone, indicate how the earth's crust warps and cracks...
...Deepest Pacific deep measures 6.45 mi. (34,210 ft.), lies between the Philippines and Japan...
...happened to think of it (and then in huge quantities). Though he was a devoted family man, he spent less time at home than he did traveling. An air trip around South America to look at his agencies was a routine matter; he once estimated he traveled 125,000 mi. a year. All his traveling was by automobile or plane; trains ran on too regular a schedule for Carload Ritchie. Last autumn he took a trip to the Pacific Coast, insisted on calling on wholesalers in person, sold four carloads of Eno's before he was through. Warmhearted...