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...Internationalized Tangier commands the Strait of Gibraltar. This Strait is at present dominated by Britain at "the Rock" (Gibraltar), and it is a fixed tenet of British policy to brook no rivals. The "menace" referred to by Mr. Chamberlain referred to reports that Abd-el-Krim was preparing to attack the Tangier zone...
...place of gray rock domes, fretted shoreline, low islands: and a horizon studded with icebergs, the Bowdoin, flagship of Explorer Donald B. MacMillan's Polar expedition, lay at anchor waiting for her consort, the Peary. When the latter turned up, she explained that a fierce storm near the Strait of Belle Isle had forced her to heave to for fear of damage to the expedition's three Navy planes which she carried lashed to her decks. Board screens had been erected against the hammering seas and no damage was done...
Itinerary. Sailing out of Wiscasset, Me., nosing up through Davis Strait and Baffin Bay to a boat-base at Etah, Greenland, MacMillan will explore the ice-gap of Northern Greenland, examining and mapping the interior from the air as it has never been possible to do afoot; and from an air-base on the upper tip of Axel Heiberg Land will fly westward in search of the dubious Crocker Land...
...hours examining the Pole and its vicinity. He thought it might be possible to establish a fuel and food base at the Pole for further aerial exploration. From Kings Bay to the Pole is only a seven-hour flight. From the Pole south to Wrangel Island and Bering Strait is about 1,500 miles...
...prize is donated by P. W. Thayer '14, of the Singapore Strait Settlements, who attracted considerable attention last year by establishing a Harvard Club of Singapore of which he was the President, executive committee and sole member. He has given the prize annually to be awarded for the best piece of writing in either verse or prose...