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...trotting behind a murderous Japanese barrage the Imperial troops entered Shanhaikwan's dragon-crested South Gate. Firing from cover Chinese riflemen drove them back once, twice. Next artillery battered breaches in the walls, Japanese troops burst through, fought bayonet-to-bayonet with desperate Chinese among the low mud huts of Shanhaikwan's narrow, winding streets. Hurtling from the sky Japanese bombs set the city afire, rained death among soldiers and civilians alike. Japanese gunners, when they finally got the range, concentrated on Shanhaikwan's famed Drum Tower which has sounded, warnings for centuries, sent it crashing down...
...Harvard riflemen will meet Trinity this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock...
...from the sea 100 mi. to Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia & Willamette Rivers, swam a small killer whale last autumn. There he was stranded. The press & populace of Portland, Ore. made much of him, christened him Ethelbert (TIME, Nov. 9). While the populace gaped and riflemen took pot shots, Ethelbert was discussed & debated by the Oregon Humane Society, which finally decided he would never get back to sea and therefore should be painlessly executed with dynamite. Before that could be done, one Edward O. Lessard and his son Joseph went out in a motorboat, harpooned Ethelbert...
There are 100 contests shot at Perry, where the nation's best riflemen and riflewomen display each year the sort of shooting that Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, more than 100 years ago, showed the British at Put-in-Bay 13 mi. away. No shooting records were broken at Perry this year, largely because of the wretched weather during the first two weeks. But some paradoxical things happened in the early service cup matches. Firing under the aegis of the National Rifle Association but under the direct supervision of the War Department, the Infantry team won the Coast Guard...
...very poor weather conditions, the Crimson riflemen repeated their victory of last year over the Hartford men, although by a somewhat smaller margin, while on the whole the shooting did not come up to last year's standard. J. A. Booth '33, with 96 out of a possible 100 points, obtained the best individual score of the meet. T. C. Buckley '32, and K. R. Ludiam '33, who have also qualified as expert marksmen, both shot considerably below their usual standard. Samuel Powel, Jr. '32 and W. M. Wing '31 were the two regular members of the team missed yesterday...