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...placid, palm-fretted harbor where the Maine was blown up, guarded by hoary Morro Castle, which was begun in 1587 by Felipe II of Spain as protection against Sir Francis Drake and his marauding ilk. Perhaps someone on the Texas could point out the stone chute in the seaward wall where executed prisoners used to be slid to the sharks...
...between Chile and Peru. Bolivians have cast eager eyes at Tacna-Arica, but have not entered into their neighbors' dispute. Secretary Kellogg's scheme of settlement would give Bolivia a much-desired corridor to the sea and a port, the city of Arica. Then too, on the Morro promontory of Arica, Secretary Kellogg would like to see erected a monument to commemorate the healing of the Chile-Peru hate. Thus, everyone would be happy...
Salutes boomed across the harbor of Arica last week as the U. S. cruiser, Cleveland, slipped in between the Morro fort and the Chilean cruiser, Chacabuco, and landed Major General William Lassiter at the port-city of Tacna-Arica, where he is to succeed General Pershing as Chairman of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission (TIME...
...Krim's former general headquarters at Ajdir, became aware that the Riffian war lord had furnished himself with many of the commonplaces of European existence. A French-made telephone was discovered, in good working order, and was promptly connected up with the Spanish base at Morro Nuevo. In a room filled with maps and various documents were neat-filed clippings from Spanish, French and German newspapers. At Abd-el-Krim's residence, a short distance away, was found an extensive library containing numerous works on international law. And a hospital of two rooms fitted up with modern surgical...
...Spanish forces advanced up the heights for about a mile and a third; took Morro Viejo (400 ft. high), Malmussi (500 ft.) and Cuervas de Xauen (1,800 ft.). The French made a sudden assault upon the heights of Kifane, captured them, and pushed their line several miles beyond. Then the pinch subsided. There were too many mountains in the jaws of the pincers, for one thing...