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...Crimson actually won the race at this point, for by staying ahead of Syra- cuse while still being overstroked, the varsity had the stamina left at the end to hold off the Orange's power finish. Syracuse was clocked at 8:49, a scant .6 behind the varsity. M.I.T. trailed by three lengths with B.U. another two lengths behind...
Next day a squadron of Italian bombing and fighting planes attacked two Greek destroyers, the Vasileus Georgios I (King George I) and the Vasilissa Olga (Queen Olga), off the island of Syra in the Cyclades. The destroyers zigzagged and opened up with anti-aircraft guns. The warplanes flew away. Two nights before, Italian warships forced the Greek liner Attiki into Palermo, where authorities refused to let her continue her voyage...
Other Catastrophies. In the long, narrow area of.disaster a cyclone swept the islands of Syra & Mitylene, in the Aegean Sea, unroofing hundreds of houses. A quake racked Adrianople, in Thrace. Finally a tidal wave rose from the Black Sea to inundate the Bulgarian port of Varna, which simultaneously quivered...