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...Manhattan, arrived a boat carrying 129 enthusiastic recruits for the Spanish Foreign Legion of every hue and numerous nationalities. The sight of the Statue of Liberty imbued them with a mad desire to see America. The captain of the ship forbade them to go ashore. As answer, they mutinied. Fists, feet, clubs, chairs, crockery were used. One man drew a knife, was promptly bumped on the head with a club. Eventually police restored order and the ship sailed for Spain...
Sailed from Cherbourg on the good ship Olympic the Belgian Debt Mission, the personnel of which is: ex-Premier Georges Theunis; Felician Cattier, head of La Banque d'Outremer; Baron Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian Ambassador to the U. S.; fenile Francqui, Vice Governeur de la Société Générale de Belgique...
...foot for every day the ship had been gone from port. *Dr. Beebe's statement was broad, unscientific. Doubtless the Arcturus did not go far enough south to find the Humboldt Current. A report of Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History last spring (TIME, April 13) indicated that El Niño, a warm current from the north which encounters the Humboldt off the coast of Peru about Christmas time, appeared a trifle behind schedule last winter but in unusual volume and southward reach...
...seeking eagles' eggs will pause to secure his foothold in the last dizzy crotch beneath the eyrie, Commander MacMillan and his fellow polar pilgrims (TIME, June 22 et seq.) last week dropped anchor at their boatbase, Etah, Greenland, unloaded their three Navy seaplanes from the stout ship Peary, and set about clearing and leveling the one steep little beach their harbor offered for a takeoff. Five Eskimo families were found in the "village," the men of which assisted in the arduous task of building skidways and tumbling large rocks aside...
...good. But he then had to pick a prize crew to man the ship he had taken. He tried it, found that there were altogether too many volunteers...