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...total population of 2,437 and lie obscurely some 300 miles east of Cape Horn. Discovered by Britons, they were seized in succession by the French and Spanish. In 1914 the Falklands won their first real fame when off their shores British Admiral Sturdee destroyed the daring German raider squadron of Admiral von Spee...
Ruthless in defense of the franc, M. Tannery breathed the word which recently barred from France smart Lieut. Colonel Francis Norris, a suave British bear raider. Last week a nod from Governor Tannery expelled another British bear, 27-year-old Serge Rubenstein, brilliant Cambridge economist and founder of Paris' Franco-Asiatic Bank. A third young man who sold too many francs short to suit Gold Cock Tannery was Bertrand Coles Neidecker, fugitive U. S. founder of Paris' closed Travelers Bank (TIME...
...during the War Major Patrick Jay Hurley jumped into a German trench with a raiding party, beat down the defenders in a battle of bayonets. A wounded German soldier named M. Struver seized a hand grenade, threw it at Raider Hurley, wounded...
Morgan, Morgan, the raider, And Morgan's terrible men, With bowie knives and pistols, Are galloping up the glen! ?Constance Fenimore Woolson...
...Gallipoli have built a monument of fame to Australia's soldiers that cannot be destroyed. Australia's Navy, however, is young, small and very green. There is just one victory to which Australian bluejackets can point with pride. In November 1914 the high-stacked German commerce raider Emden, almost at the end of its fuel after a spectacular career among Allied shipping in the Far East, was cornered off the Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser Sydney, beached and burned with a great loss of life among the Emden's crew. The Emden's gallant Captain...