Word: outposts
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...while he was still Tsarevich, young Nicholas sailed with a gorgeous retinue into dazzled Vladivostok. This outpost of the Russian Empire he proclaimed -quite in the manner of Edward of Wales today-must be linked by rail with St. Petersburg. Preferably the line should run direct, cutting from Vladivostok straight across North Manchuria, then Chinese. Five years later China's wicked old Empress Dowager sent to Nicholas II's coronation an ancient Chinese with a world-great name and an itching palm, the Viceroy Li Hung-chang...
...south from Miami and Texas, roping the Caribbean and South America. Few weeks ago Transamerican Airlines bowed itself out of the North Atlantic field, leaving P. A. A. to work out its projected air passage to Europe via Greenland and Iceland. Last week P. A. A. acquired another strategic outpost-Alaskan Airways, comprising 2,500 mi. of lines. The future was too obscure to be read in detail but any observer could make plausible guesses merely on the strength of Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau's recent predictions of airplane service between Europe and the Orient via the Northern Passage...
...with a native, had just been recaptured, but nothing was said about it. In the next room she waited her punishment while he and Riquem argued abstractions. Next morning, on the Governor's orders, Riquem arrested him. Torpido, right handy man to the Governor, followed Jeronimo to the outpost where he was imprisoned. Torpido thought it would be a good idea to have him killed. But the Governor, who normally would have agreed with Torpido, had changed his mind. Virginia, daughter of the woman who had once hardened his heart by betraying him, came searching for the secret...
...progress brought them to Gilgit, 150 miles northwest of Srinagar. Leader Haardt considered the higher mountains before him, decided the two cars never would get over them. On 200 yaks and ponies the party went on, leaving the cars in Gilgit-first wheeled vehicles ever to reach that mountain outpost. Across the Himalayas, at Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan, almost in mid-Asia, the Haardt party was to be met by seven other cars which had left Peiping when the first party left Beirut. The party from Peiping, too, had encountered difficulties. Lieutenant Commander Victor Point was in charge. In the Gobi...
...Giro Over Mexico. Down upon a terrace of the famed Chichen-Itza ruins in Yucatan, where the Carnegie Foundation has an outpost, plumped an autogiro piloted by Capt. Lewis A. ("Lon") Yancey. In less than two hours he had windmilled over the mountains from Merida, a journey which takes most of a day by narrow-gauge rail and wagon. Having flown the first 'giro to Cuba and thence to Mexico, Pilot Yancey visited Mexico City before heading for the U. S. Pacific Coast...