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...Vasco da Gama," Mr. Usher, Widener...
...little British fleet-sweeper, Jonquil. One shell from the London could scuttle it. Not until the British had established their safety zone did the Portuguese ships begin a fitful bombardment. Soon Minister of Marine Commandante Magalhaes Correia sent a transport and the 55-year-old iron-clad Vasco da Gama clanking down the Madeira coast to land a punitive force on the beach at Santa Cruz and attack Funchal from the rear...
...daybreak off Santa Cruz the Vasco da Gama banged away, first with its eight-inch, then with its six-inch, then with its four-inch gun. Under this lopsided bombardment troops were landed, rebel soldiers fell back on Funchal. No visiting Briton was even pinked. Two days later rebel General Souza Dias surrendered to loyal Commandante Correia...
MEXICO "Earthquake! Earthquake!" "Mexico's Idol of Flesh and Blood" was boldly denounced and defied before the Mexican Congress last week by fiery spellbinder and factional leader Senor Antonio Soto y Gama. Though he dared not name "Mexico's Idol," the denouncer clearly meant bullnecked, heavy-jowled President Plutarco Elias Calles. When Senor Calles' term expires, in December, it is understood that he will become the Leader ("Boss") of the new "Grand National Revolutionary Party." This will reunite the national majority once dominated by the late, assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30); and therefore factional...
Morones Forced Out. Not to defend Roman Catholicism, but to discredit the Mexican Federation of Labor was the shrewd purpose of Senor Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama, leader of the rival Agrarian Federation, when he presently declared: "There isn't a man, woman or child in all Mexico who accepts the official charges that the Catholic clergy inspired the assassination of President-elect Obregon. Everybody knows Morones did it. Morones must go, or President Calles's administration will forfeit the confidence of the public...