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...Harvard-Yale crew race, scheduled for June 24, will again be rowed upstream this Spring, starting at the drawbridge and ending at Bartlett's Cove. It will start at 6 o'clock, an hour earlier than usual, while in case of postponement will be rowed downstream the following morning. The Freshman and Jayvee races will be downstream...
...past eight years I have crossed this river almost twice daily, and have seen it sometimes as mudflats, sometimes brimming to the base of Cleopatra's Needle. The Thames is tidal to above London, and suicides' bodies are generally recovered miles downstream...
...naval and air forces of the Son of Heaven soon began shooting up the Yangtze, sinking scores of heavily laden Chinese junks. They were believed to have sunk all Chinese warships anywhere in the vicinity of Nanking for many miles up and downstream. Colonel Hashimoto, senior Japanese officer, announced "I have orders to fire on every ship in the river!" Although the Yangtze is by treaty an international waterway, although all British vessels flew the British flag and had huge Union Jacks painted on their deck, three unsuccessful airplane attacks were made on the British gunboats Cricket and Scarab. Small...
...commander, devised joint proposals which they sent to their Consuls General who in turn presented them to Shanghai's Chinese Mayor, toothy O. K. (for nothing) Yui and Japanese Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa. For the protection of foreigners in the International Settlement, one demanded that all Japanese warships drop downstream below the China Merchants Lower Wharf, that Chinese soldiers retire simultaneously south of Yangtsepoo Creek. No hint of what action Britain and the U. S. might take was added. Polite Mayor Yui said that he would forward the note to Nanking. Admiral Hasegawa said nothing. Few days later the Tokyo...
...combined fleet was the 37-year-old British-built Idumo with lynx-eyed Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa in command. The Idumo was moored opposite Shanghai's International Settlement, and ten days of bombing, shelling and one attempted torpedoing had so far damaged her but slightly. Sixteen miles downstream, where the Whangpoo River joins the yellow muddy estuary of the Yangtze lay the mass of the Japanese fleet, over 50 warships, including four battleships, six battle cruisers, 38 destroyers and one of Japan's four aircraft carriers. Most were slowly steaming back & forth to avoid almost constant sniping from...