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Our tickets read only to Cologne, and we changed trains here and arranged for a sleeper from Dusseldorf. The station was dirtier than in pre-war times, and the train was late enough to make us feel at home. Service was good, and an English-speaking porter who helped us...
A varied landscape forms the background. The country is hilly, like that in the environs of Florence; bare rocks alternate with wooded knolls; villas, castles and hamlets nestle in the valleys, and at intervals, cedars, cypresses, palms and orange trees stand out with glossy trunks and no branches but a...
The Greeks have held an election and turned out Venizelos; on Sunday they will hold a plebiscite to determine who shall be their new leader. The overwhelming defeat of Venizelos makes a return-of anyone of his party inconceivable. On the other hand, the royalist party is hesitating in its...
Candidates for the informal seven will be required to furnish a share of their equipment, although enough tights, jerseys and trunks for all members of the squad will be provided. Men must supply their own skates, sweaters, and, if possible, their own sticks. Goal-tenders are expected to equip themselves...
Perhaps if a platoon of regulation army top sergeants, weighing seven pud each with their shoes off, were invested with the new ponchos and put at the head of a bayonet charge, they might work the same terror on the modern Cimmerians as did Artaxerxes' now well-known elephants, even...