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Causing a decided upset in preface dope, the Junior A crew, stroked by O. A. Pendar '27, came through with a brilliant spurt in the last piece of the championship class race yesterday afternoon to win from the Senior crew by 4 feet...
...Lunghai railway forced them to make a long detour adding a month to the trip. Later, in Shens! Province they found themselves in the wake of the defeated provincial army which had looted the villages along the road and largely wrecked the inns. The country was much upset and bands of robbers were frequent. Happily they had but one encounter with bandits. On the North west trade route they discovered some hitherto unreported rock grottoes of the sixth century, A. D. Enough evidence was there found to establish the date, but the sculpture had been badly destroyed during the various...
With the national applecart thus upset, each of Poland's three political tycoons (Dmowski, Right; Witos, Center; Pilsudski, Left) encouraged his followers to set him up as dictator. Correspondents cabled that "anything might happen." Interest centred in fire-eating, swashbuckling Josef Pilsudski, a former (the second) President of the Rzeczpospolita Palska. He was exiled to Siberia (1887-1892) for plotting to assassinate the Tsar; and during the World War the Germans succeeded in catching and imprisoning him. When at liberty, he delights to organize bands of "patriots," train them in gymnastic sokols (clubs) and lead them on ill-considered expeditions...
...University foilsmen is as follows: Harvard won from the Navy, 5 to 4; from Cornell, 5 to 3; from the Army, 5 to 4; from Columbia, 5 to 4; and in the final meet lost to Yale, 5 to 3. The Crimson victory over Columbia was especially an upset, since Columbia had previously been triumphant in a dual meet between the two universities...
...appears M. Peret, a skilled lawyer and a veteran politician, but scarcely an expert of the first rank in state finance. He occupied himself with a modicum of quiet activity last week-sent to the Senate those clauses of the tax bill which the Chamber had voted before it upset the Cabinet. From these driblets of added taxation it is hoped to tide matters over for a few weeks more...