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Finally, although the seas were still troublesome, the two giant cranes Monarch and Century were brought to the spot and succeeded in catching the ends of the slings which the divers had adjusted under the S-51's hull. Together, with a combined lifting capacity of 350 tons, they failed to budge the sunken craft. They tried a second time and failed. It was concluded that the submarine had entirely filled with water. A diver with an oxy-acetaline torch cut a tiny hole in the engine room hatch. A few air bubbles escaped. Then nothing more. The compartment...
...didn't want to be a Queen," she insisted whenever a reigning monarch or the crown prince of an empire was proposed, as her future husband. Disturbed, her father cast a piercing Italian glance after his daughter as she strolled, one afternoon at Bordighera, with a tall blond young man whom King Vittorio thought he recalled having seen before...
Last week King Boris of Bulgaria, consistently well press agented* monarch, performed an act of heroism. Motoring regally along the road which connects Sumen and Kaspican (Bulgaria) he saw a runaway team approaching, shouted to his chauffeur to stop...
Presently their car purred into a clearing, where huts huddled under the black boughs, and many-colored peasants basked in the sun. The car stopped. The astounded dozers found themselves basking in their monarch's smile...
French power there. He is more. He actually governs Morocco for the Sultan, and as the Sultan is in theory an absolute monarch, Marshal Lyautey is par excellence a beneficent despot. His word is law. Yet, he always takes care to treat the Sultan's subjects with great tact. He has infinite patience, but, driven to act, he moves with merciless rapidity. The Arabs, who almost always admire a brave and wise man, admire Marshal Lyautey; for he never fails to punish the culpable, no matter how difficult it may be, and he never fails to pay the utmost...