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Krim Comes. At 5:00 on a raw chill morning last week the French sentry at Ize Marouene, an outpost north of Targuist, spied a cloud of dust which resolved itself into eight mounted men. Two were French officers, four were native riflemen. In their midst rode two portly figures in loose Riffian garments. One was the Sherif Hamedou Quedzani, chief of the Sanadas tribe, the envoy through whom the final details of submission had been negotiated. The second Riffian, a plump but well knit man with a shrewd impassive face and hard luminous eyes, was of course Mohammed...
...week a speech which crowned perhaps the greatest triumph of the calm potency of Leonard Wood. The speech was from the lips of Emilo Aguinaldo. Concerning him, let it be remembered that in 1899 when the U. S. decided to hold the Philippines, he shot up a U. S. outpost and started an insurrection which lasted six times as long as the Spanish War, cost more than half as much, required 60,000 U. S. troops to quell...
Lyonesse, the legend has it, was the outpost of Roman power in Britain. On the tip of the Cornwall peninsula it lay, between Land's End and the Scilly Isles, until the ocean rose up and swallowed it. Today, "old fisherman still boast that when the sea is still, they can hear its church bells ring far down beneath the rippling keel...
There is no racial or geographical obstacle to this contemplated union. Austrians, as German as Bavarian or Samons, are even more so than the Prussians who have been Germany's standard bearers in recent history. Austria itself was originally and outpost of the German empire, planted athwart the Danube to keep the Huns and Slavs from raiding the fat lands of Bavaria and Swabia. Well into modern times, until the rise of the Hobenzollerns and the Roformation together alienated the smaller German states from the Bapsburgs, Austrin was acknowledged the chief of the German states...
Another conversion yesterday was that of Simonds, regular tackle of last year's Freshman team, who has been playing at end on team C. He has been changed back to his old position and his place at outpost filled by Baldwin...