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...summer cruise will take us to the Azores, Madeira, Tenerife, Cadiz and Tangier", he began. "At Tangier, most of my summer crew will leave the ship to return to college. Then, with five hands besides the cook, the bos'n and myself, we will start for San Francisco by way of Rio, the Horn and Valparaiso. The voyage should occupy about four and one-half months, and will quite possibly be the last westward passage around Cape Horn under sail...
...They" told Sailor Roosevelt wrong: first clipper to reach San Francisco was the Samuel Russell in 1850. *Route: San Francisco: Macao; Hongkong; Fenang; Delhi; Bagdad; Cairo; Athens; Rome; Marseille; Seville: Tangier, Morocco; Dakar: Senegal: Natal: Brazil: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Miami; Atlanta; Dallas; Los Angeles; San Francisco...
...mercy of an incident. . . . War in Europe this year or next will be the result of accident, not of design. What is more likely to come than early hostilities is another series of incidents like those that preceded the World War. Thus between 1905 and 1914 Europe moved from Tangier to Bosnia, from Bosnia to Agadir, and from Agadir to Sarajevo. . . . Europe is consciously and visibly headed for war. . . ." But need the U. S. become involved? Yes. says Author Simonds. because "Mr. Roosevelt's foreign policy ... is identical with Mr. Wilson's." The Author, unlike many...
More trivial things than torn theatre posters have caused serious riots in Tangier. Diagonally across the strait from British-owned Gibraltar, Tangier is nominally under the rule of boyish Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. Actually it is ruled by an unwieldy international board composed of a French administrator with Spanish, British and Italian assistants. International feeling is high; Administrator Paul Alberge sent detectives to watch the alley between the French and Spanish cinemas...
Within a few hours the story of the poster-eating Spanish goats was all over Tangier. Feeling was higher than ever, rumors were thick: The goatherd was a Spanish spy. . . . The goats were Spanish spies. . . . They were trained to eat nothing but French posters. More cautiously Administrator Alberge continued his investigations. Dramatically he announced the solution. It was not the posters but the paste with which they were posted that attracted the goats. The Spanish paste was bitter, unpalatable. The French paste smelt and tasted of honey. The French cinema proprietor added a few drops of oil of bitter almonds...