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...Peru, two German ships sailed in the night without clearance papers. Next day the Peruvian cruiser Almirante Grau found them burning 200 miles offshore. Two larger ships which tried to sail were halted by five shots from the cruiser Coronel Bolognesi. Their crews fired them in the harbor. At Paita another German ship was burned. Peru retaliated by seizing the hangars and workshops and two Junkers planes of the Lufthansa airline, by taking possession of the assets of Lufthansa and German shipping companies...
...Tello '11, G. K. Noble '17, and Dr. L. S. Moss will leave New York for Paita, Peru, in about ten days on a South American expedition for the University Museum of Comparative Zoology. From Paita they will travel on mules across the Andes, and into the Amazon valley. The purpose of the expedition is to collect zoological specimens and to study the native tribe of Guarani Indians. Dr. Tello, who holds the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin, will make anthropological investigations and study the language of the Indians, while Dr. Moss will study diseases and their...
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