Word: almeria
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...quick clap of a snapping guy-rope sounds no worse to the ear of a tight-rope walker than do the echoes of the Deutschland bombing sound to the Non-Intervention Committee in London. Only to be expected after such an attack is the news of the bombardment of Almeria and of the mobilization of the German fleet and of the British squadron at Gilbraltar. The Italian and German withdrawal from the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee is a far more serious event, however, stopping dead the peace negotiations which in the past fortnight were progressing behind the scenes...
...Almeria the British destroyer Hunter, on patrol duty, hit or was hit by something that pushed in her bow, killed eight British seamen, wounded 14. Was it a mine, or was it, as Almeria fishermen are said to have insisted, a torpedo from a German submarine whose periscope had been observed? International complications from this might be so grave that British admiralty officials "suggested," even before a committee of inquiry was constituted, that the Hunter had hit a mine. With great secrecy the Hunter, bow awash, was towed stern foremost into Gibraltar, locked in a closely-guarded drydock, where gold...
...Plaza Del Almeria, the courtyard of the Royal Palace, a regiment of the Madras Hussars of Pavia was drawn up in honor of the Ambassador. Count Velle conducted him within. There Alphonso received him with the majesty of a sovereign, with the handclasp of a good fellow...
...best fiction in the number is "When Granada Came to Almeria." It is interesting from beginning to end, and in certain parts (notably in the cathedral scene) it is to an unusual degree imaginative...
...Kuno Francke; "Arlin, the Thief," by H. A. Bellows '06; "Sonoratown," by W. H. Wright sC.; "The Poetry of Edward Rowland Sill," by H. E. Cory 1G.; "Sea-Mist," by J. H. Wheelock '08; "The Travel Papers of Arminius, III--Concerning a Paradise or Two;" "When Granada Came to Almeria," by R. Altrocchi '08; "On a Sundial," by C. H. Dickerman '07; "The Tale of the Holen Squad," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; "The Vision of Fulfilled Desire," by R. J. Walsh '07; "On the First Movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony," by H. W. Bell '07; Editorial, Book Notices...