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Spaniards are poor marksmen and worse at close order drill, but they do not run away. Not in all the nine months of Spain's civil war has there been anything on either side to match the complete rout of the Italian divisions at Brihuega, and Rightist General Franco and his German and Italian backers were bound to make that defeat good last week. More than prestige was at stake in the attack on Bilbao. Bilbao captured should give the Rightists control of the Biscay coast, remove serious military pressure on their rear, allow thousands...
...attempt. With seven volunteers aboard the stripped old collier Merrimac* he steamed up to the harbor in the dark of the moon on June 3. Everything went wrong. Eight of the ten torpedoes with which Hobson had planned to scuttle his ship refused to explode. The Spaniards were execrable marksmen, but they shot away his rudder chains and the Merrimac drifted helplessly past its mark into open harbor. There two Spanish torpedoes sank it in a spot where it did no one any harm...
...deputy sheriffs (TIME, March 1) were suddenly awakened at 5:15 a. m. by a bombardment of gas shells and grenades. Looking out they beheld a strange object, a 20-ft. wooden tower erected on the rear end of a truck. From slits in the tower four marksmen with repeating guns were pouring tear and nauseating gas shells into the second and third story windows of the seized plant. The sit-downers put on masks or covered their noses with wet rags, their eyes with castor oil, and hurled machine parts and small containers of acid at the tower. Inventor...
Midway through the final period, Austie Harding scored the fast-tiring Crimson's final goal on an unassisted rush. Boles and Badger brought Yale's total to five, and Kidder was constantly pressed by Eli marksmen...
Captain Lawrence B. Bixby, coach of the team, yesterday said , "The team is stronger this year than it ever has been before. The addition of several promising marksmen makes me feel that this may be the most successful intercollegiate season we have ever experienced...