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...railway frontage, two-fifths Imperial docks and barracks, and only one-fifth private property. In size and sort, the residential area destroyed would almost correspond to East Boston. And beyond the area of practical destruction enormous damage has been caused by the peculiar vicious swiftness of the explosion. Thirteen hundred persons have been killed and a great many more wounded. Nothing like the amount of blinding has ever been observed in a disaster of this sort...
...hanging of thirteen negro soldiers attached to the 24th United States Infantry is the first case of such a wholesale execution since the Mexican War of 1845. It is the one of the few blots on the remarkably fine record of our Army...
Sergeant Empey was in the National Guard and Regular Army of the United States for thirteen years, until he joined the British Army in France in 1915. He served at the Front in a machine gun detachment and as a bomb-thrower until he was wounded last February...
Captain Parker, who was in command of the Cadet School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has moved his offices to Dane Hall. He will direct the thirteen weeks' course and at the end of this time, he will recommend for Ensign's commissions those who complete the work successfully. The actual intensified instruction will begin this morning...
...this summer at which Yale men wishing to serve in the country's agricultural army may be able to work in comfortable quarters. The membership at each camp has been limted to 50, in order that each man's time may be spent to the best advantage. Twelve or thirteen weeks will be the regular enrolment period, but men leaving to join one of the second officers' training camps will be excuses early...