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...Freedom from any difficulty to navigation from differences in the tidal levels of the two oceans. The maximum difference of water level would not, he declared, produce a current of more than 3.5 knots in a 1,000-ft. channel 50 ft. deep...
...well in the land of liberty, particularly in Phildelphia, where they have to call out the Marine Corps to make the people conform to laws they evidently do not like." The Chamber of Deputies voted an appropriation of 15,000,000 francs for the relief of sufferers from "floods, tidal waves, avalanches, forest fires and other calamities." Communists in Paris decided to hold a Ruhr protest meeting. They secured the Syndicalist Hall. The Syndicalists waited until the Communists (now their hated enemies) arrived and then began to break up the meeting. When Marcel Cachin mounted the platform, a free fight...
...washing of the Southern tip of Lower California by a tidal wave...
...official reports were received. From Shanghai came indirect information of the disaster, and disaster was the one sure truth. A quake of unparalleled severity, fire, tidal waves, famine, explosives, hundreds of thousands of houses wrecked, hundreds of thousands of people killed?fact and fiction were woven in a horrible fabric of destruction and death...
National Women's Doubles. The Englishwomen finally poked their heads above the tidal wave of defeat which has drenched their invading aspirations. Miss Kathleen McKane and Mrs. B. C. Covell won the national doubles championship by steadiness and clockwork team play from Miss Eleanor Goss and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. Score: 2?6, 6?2, 6?1. Of singular interest during the match was the pronounced partisanship of the American audience for the English players...