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Federal troops captured Esperanza station on the Vera Cruz Railroad and extended their operation to Orizaka and Talapa. Rebel losses exceeded 2,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners. All these places are in the vicinity of the port of Vera Cruz, the rebel stronghold, which was threatened and which the Federals expected soon to occupy...
...Army's experimental station at McCook Field, Dayton, will soon test a new bomber built by G. Elias &; Bros. of Buffalo. Equipped with two 700-horse-power motors, the new plane will carry a deadly destructive load of 6,900 pounds of bombs-enough to wreck a city. Yet with this enormous load the plane will reach a height of 13,500 feet, and at lower altitudes be able to fly with one of its motors completely out of commission. With a wing area of 1,500 square feet, a span of nearly 100 feet, it will be second...
Last year five Harvard undergraduates were stationed at three ports on the coast of Labrador. Two of these, Dudley Merrill '26, who has spent two years with Dr. Grenfell's missions, and G. D. Krumbhaar '26, who worked with him last summer at the Indian Harbor station, have been appointed by Dr. Grenfell to conduct the drive at the University for 1924 workers...
...United States Government has sworn in eleven students in the University as members of the United States Naval Reserve Corps on active duty at the Naval Reserve Air Station at Squantum...
These men, who will work as student aviators, have enrolled in the course in flying instruction which the Navy is offering to New England college graduates and undergraduates. Lieutenant George R. Poud, commanding officer of the station at Squantum, stated yesterday that work in the Ground School will begin on the evening of Tuesday. February 12, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Actual instruction in flight, however, will not be given until spring or summer...