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Britain's famed "thin red line" of Empire goes little farther than Quetta, lying beyond the Suliman mountains which wall off India's rich valley of the Indus. The vulnerable door in that wall is the Bolan Pass. With its back to the door is Quetta; beyond it, on the British railroad to the Afghan border, the forts of New Chaman and Pishin. This is the land of the fanatic, black-bearded Pathans. And at Quetta, to draw their teeth, are stationed a British division, the Indian Staff College, a Royal Air Force training school and Sir Alexander...
...reports came in. The bell was not in Tokyo, not in Canton, not in Shanghai, not in Hong Kong. Durban and Cape Town could not find it, nor could New Caledonia, Suva, Papeete, Singapore, Hawaii. Vancouver, Amsterdam and Liverpool were a blank and Manhattan Police Commissioner Bolan had no tidings...
...Liquor must sell almost 50% cheaper before the bootlegger can be completely driven out of business, declared New York City's Police Commissioner Bolan...
Appointed. James Sylvester Bolan, 60, Deputy Chief Inspector of Manhattan's police; to be Police Commissioner, succeeding Edward Pierce Mulrooney who last week resigned to become chairman of New York's State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Like his predecessor. Commissioner Bolan answered the recruiting call of Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt in 1896, has come up steadily from the ranks. He got his first promotion (to sergeant) in 1901 when he jumped from a ferryboat into Hell Gate Channel, rescued two drowning men. During his ten-year supervision of Manhattan's theatre district, Broadway has called...
...yard swim (individual times count) First heat won by Robert Gay, M. I. T. 2m. 53 3-5s.; second, Philip Wade, C. C N. Y., 2m. 55 3-5s.; third, Malvin H. Leo nard, Harvard, 3m. 10 4-5s. Second hea won by Robert Bolan, M. I. T., 2m. 5 4-5s.; second, Edward Karsten, C. C. N. Y., 3m. 5 2-5s.; third Sidney J. Rogers Harvard...