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Yale and Princeton enter their gridiron battles this afternoon favorites, but neither are taking chances with their opponents. Yale is sending her strongest team on the field to quell the North Carolina attack...
...Spain undertook definite obligations when the Algeciras Conference (1906) placed the zone under her rule, and she has never fulfilled them. Besides, Spain is confronted with an orderly rule in French Morocco and complaints from the Italians in Tripolitania, who declare that Spain's inability to quell the Riffians reacts with bad effect on her own natives. Both at home and abroad a victory in Morocco was indispensable to Spain...
...have had their effect. Lately there have been others. Redmond, vilified by the opposition, repudiated by his own party, gallantly fought for his ideal. Griffith sacrificed his life to his self-imposed task. Finally Michael Collins, treacherously surprised, died a victim to the anarchism that he tried to quell. But it will long be remembered how he kept "firing till his revolver was emptied" nor will his final great pronouncement that only forgiveness of his murderers would bring peace--a fitting "envol" to a splendid career--be soon forgotten...
...government is sufficiently strong to handle the outbreak. The chief aim of the authorities is to quell the disorders without unnecessary force...
...diplomatic blunder; and the demands themselves were looked on as an attempt to coerce the British government by a minority of its subjects. Accordingly, Montagu's resignation was demanded immediately. His successor will in all probability be Lord Derby, who, as a conservative, is in favor of force to quell rebellion and retain English power...