Word: southward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Caroline Islands, that fine powder of islands lying in the West Pacific, the Japanese sampans point southward. They cross the Equator, weave through the maze of the East Indian Archipelago toward Australia's New Guinea and North Australia. In the shallow waters of the Coral Sea along the Great Barrier Reef, 1,000 mi. from home, they find what they want but it is in Australian waters. Long since, the Australian Government has protested to Tokyo via London against their poaching. But Japan had not the heart to discourage such energetic citizens. Last week Australia got ready...
...hours later the wreck of the Fulton, still flaming, was being towed to Hongkong by two Admiralty tugs under escort of another British warship, and Bias Bay was clear of all ships except the Norwegian freighter Norviken steaming slowly southward from Foochow. Suddenly 22 Chinese passengers aboard the Norviken whipped out revolvers, rushed the bridge, overpowered the officers, rushed the engine room, smashed the wireless. At their leisure the pirates stripped seven European passengers of their valuables, lowered boats and. unmolested, made for the shore carrying ten nonpiratical Chinese to be held for ransom...
...general, these cold waves are not due to the presence of icebergs as some people would have us believe. As a matter of fact, the arctic region does travel southward during the winter but this has very little part in producing these frigid temperatures we are experiencing. At a height of eight or nine miles above the surface of the earth the temperature is about thirty degrees below zero...
Coach Fesler's basketball quintet will board the train this morning at 9 o'clock to travel southward for two basketball games this week-end. The first game will be an Eastern Intercollegiate League contest against Princeton this evening, and tomorrow's event will be against Swarthmore...
...born Eugene Chen and General Tsai Ting-kai's famed 19th Route Army. His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been largely replaced by stumbling recruits. Reeling southward last week the rebels paused briefly at a new capital, Chang-chow. From the coast and from the north, more Chiang troops came to hound General Tsai and his army into the back country...