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They had cleared Hongkong's headland when there appeared off their starboard bow none other than the crack cruiser of the loyal Nanking navy, the four-year-old, Japanese-made Ning Hai. Smaller, theoretically slower and equipped with only 5.5-in. guns, the Ning Hai is nevertheless in fighting trim and none of its guns is in pawn. It straightway opened fire on the Hai Shen and Hai Chi. The two old baggages heavily turned tail, labored back into Hongkong Harbor. Soon after, Ning Hai put in too, and its officers variously explained that the shots had been...
Morgan and his son, Henry Sturgis Morgan, sat on the stand to watch Mrs. Henry Sturgis Morgan christen the new 10,000 ton cruiser Quincy. While the band brayed, airplanes zoomed, crowds cheered, flags waved, schoolchildren sang, a U. S. deputy marshal elbowed his way through the jam and up on the stand, to serve writs in a mysterious $500,000 action against Mr. Morgan...
...Bund, the British cruiser Capetown lay at anchor, with a private telephone cable running ashore. At retreat, night after night, Chinese ashore had heard the ship's band playing the Capetown's special quickstep, and it was that same march that the Chinese band of grateful General Yeh Peng blared through the corridors of Asiatic Petroleum Co. while his officers, bearing their banner with its strange device, tramped onward...
Last year Mr. Lyons right cordially received Their Majesties' third son, the Duke of Gloucester, in Australia. Last week he watched a special train draw in from Portsmouth, carrying Gloucester up from the Australian battle cruiser Australia which had just delivered him safely home to England. After an absence of seven months, Gloucester's respectful first move was to try to kiss the Queen-Empress' hand but his mother advanced, welcomed him with a majestic hug & kiss. That night King George conferred upon Gloucester the grand cross of the honorary order of St. Michael and St. George...
Last year the news candidates were organized into the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club and swept into the glare of publicity when they opposed the NSL peace platform on Widener steps. Later they had prominent parts to play in the demonstration against the Nazi cruiser, Karlsruhe, in City Square, Charlestown. They had to examine the possibilities of incipent riots which often brewed on Cambridge Streets but never quite reached the proportions of the famous demonstration several years ago. Of course, some rather routine and rather difficult assignments face the Freshman news candidate at any time but the spring possesses...