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...away behind the mountains of Lombardy, the tiny Lago d'Iseo, famed retreat of Italian notables, appears to the eye of passing aviators like a single glistening twisted tear upon the scarred visage of a giant. Last week a salute of 21 battleship guns boomed across this diminutive strip of water. Tourists afloat in ornamental near-gondolas, all but toppled overboard in fright. Shading their eyes and looking about for a super-dreadnaught which was nowhere to be seen, they marveled...
...Edward of Wales from his South American tour was preceded by a series of quaint yet vital doings. British Life Guards in full uniform and mounted on night-black charges cantered bravely to Victoria Station, wheeled through its gloomy archway, and drew up with a flashing salute before a strip of red carpet down which the Prince was not destined to march for another 24 hours...
...Walker's personal character, when it has been submitted to minute analysis, is such that his opponents mark him unfit to sit in the Mayor's chair. The opinion is general that a man of Walker's strip is unthinkable for the chief magistracy of the greatest city in the world...
...recent years the Chileans have been dominant in the strip which they have held by force, and feeling is tense as the time for a plebiscite approaches. In the roadstead of the town lay last week...
...accustomed itself to the religious dim, it caught the gleam of many a fair garment. There were the snowy ruffs of Danish bishops. Here was a strip of crimson across an Anglican back. There was an emerald twinkling from a Bulgarian chest...