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Route.-Taking the direct route from Friedrichchafen, the big ship passed over the French Midi, over Bordeaux, along the Spanish coast of the Bay of Biscay, and out to the Azores Islands. Thence she was to have flown to Bermuda and thence west-by-south to Lakehurst. A "local tornado" encountered an hour west of the Azores forced her to slow down to 25 m. p. h., however, and when the storm had passed, she veered northwest direct for Manhattan, a missing engine tuned in again to help hit up her pace...
...politics, he is what may conveniently be termed a moderate radical, and thereby represents a traditional policy of he Midi (Southern France). For many years he has represented Nimes (Department of the Gard) first as Député and then as Sénateur. In a recent speech to "les enfants du Gard," thanking them for their support, M. Gaston said...
Quite naturally the men who are to direct the destinies of France were in the optic field of the concentrated eyes of the eame element that awaited the citation of the Government's credo. President Doumergue, who hails from the Midi (Southern France), found time to say that he was a bullfighting fan; he therefore becomes the bullfighting President. Corpulent Premier Herriot, who is fond of a pipe, sought momentary relaxation in a Bohemian cafe where he was found eating sauerkraut-a happy augury for better Franco-German relations-and he therefore became "the corpulent, pipe-puffing, kraut-eating...
Friday afternoon and Saturday evening in Symphony Hall the last pair of the Symphony Orchestra concerts for this season with Mr. Monteux taking leave of orchestra and audience. The program embraces Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; Carpenter's "Adventures in a Perambulator"; Debussy's "L'ApresMidi Midi d' un Faune" and the Overture to "Tanuhaeuser...
Locomotives. The fastest electric locomotives in Europe were put into operation on the Toulouse-Bayonne line of the French Midi Railroad and on the Paris-Orleans Railroad. The locomotives are of the new type on which tests have been conducted by the General Electric Co. and the American Locomotive Co., at Erie, Pa. (TIME, Dec. 17), weighing 102 tons and capable of reaching a speed of 105 miles an hour. The French roads have ordered more than $15,000,000 worth of such equipment, and the Mexican Railway Co., Ltd., ten electric freight units for mountain climbing. With...