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Anxious Haligonians, who from shore had watched the billows of smoke and the swords of flame leap from the Volunteer, knew-some of them could even remember-what Halifax had missed. In December 1917 another munitions ship, the Mont Blanc, had caught fire in their harbor. In one monstrous moment, 4,000 tons of TNT exploded...
Nothing remained where the Mont Blanc had been. A half-ton fragment of her anchor was found three miles away. A gigantic rock, torn from the harbor bed, killed 64 workmen on a pier. In Halifax, whole streets of houses crumpled as if struck by a giant hand. The concussion crushed people to pulp or tossed them high. The walls of a school fell in on 200 children before they could rise from their seats. Countless fires started, merged into one. The toll: 2,000 dead, another 500 never accounted for, 20,000 injured. Property damage totaled some...
Other newcomers who have played well in early practice drills are fullback Dave Dean, V-12 transfer from the University of Pennsylvania, and Carlos Blanc, Freshman from Ohio...
Debussy: En Blanc et Noir (Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, duo-pianists; Columbia; 4 sides). Late, comparatively poor-quality Debussy, principally interesting for the quaint way in which the war-saddened composer (who died during World War I) surrounds and satirizes a Lutheran hymn. Performance: good. Recording: good...
...Cruz in 1914. He commanded the Second Division (a regular Army brigade and the 4th Brigade of Marines) from late July 1918 to August 1919. Under him the division captured 3,300 prisoners in the St. Mihiel offensive of Sept. 12-15, broke the Hindenburg Line in the stubborn Blanc Mont sector, was in the forefront of the battle in the last days of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The division captured 12,026 prisoners altogether (about one-fourth of all captures by U.S. forces), suffered 24,429 casualties, won 2,000 Croix de Guerres...