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Cuban Students Protest Against Downfall of Grau
Carrying aloft a picture of Cuba's ex-President. Grau San Martin, a crowd of students dauton- strate in front of the Presidential Pálice in Hayafik in protest again at the coup d'etat that led to the
resignation of Grau and the elevation of Carlos. Hevia to the Preside 12y."
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physical excitement seemed to de- sort him suddenly, and leave him aimless and helpless. He turned shoreward, stumbling and wading boat heeled more and more, and the towards his two companions... | green-brown water came pouring in
He looked back again, and there But the cars had scarcely dropped a cascade over the side.
were now two boats floating, and into the water before dark, taper- Then Hill slipped and fell with the one farthest out at sea pitched ing; serpentine ropes had bound his ribs across the side, and his arm clumsily, bottom upward. them, and were about the rudder; and the mase of tentacles `about it
So it was Bapioteuthis feros made 15,000 28th Apr.mburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & boat with a looping motion came the] rolled over; his boot kicked Mr.jepast.
and creeping up the sides of the splashed back into the water. Het appearance upon the Devonshire So far, this has been ́ Its Hull.
The men gripped Fison's knee as that gentleman moet suckers again. 5th May Bombay, Marcilior
serious Kygression. Mr.. their oars and pulled, but it was rushed forward to seize him, and Fison's account, taken tögether with 15,000 19th May Bombay. Marseilles & London. 6,000 20th May Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,like trying to move a boat in a float-in another moment fresh tentacles the wave of boating and bathing
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cried the boatman, and Mr. Fison heck, and after a brief, convulsive alluded, and the absence of fish from Bombay, Marsellles & London.
and the second workman rushed to struggle, in which the boat was the Cornish coasts that year, points help lug at the oar.
1early capsized, Hill was lugged clearly to a shoal of these voracious Then the man with the boathookverboard. The boat righted with deep-sea monsters prowling slowly --his name was Ewan, or Ewen-violent jerk that all but sent Mr. along the sub-tidal coastline. Hun- sprang up with a curse, and began Fison over the other side, and bid zer migration has, I know, been striking downwards over the side he struggle in the water from his suggested as the force that drove as far as he could reach, at the bank yes.
them hitherto; but, for my own of tentacles that now clustered along He stood staggering to recoves part, I prefer to believe. the alter- the boat's bottom. And, at the same is balance for a moment, and as native theory of Hemsley, time, the two rowers stood up to get¦ ie did so, he became aware that the a better purchase for the recovery struggle and the inflowing tide had shoal of these creatures may have
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boatman opened a big claap-knife, movements above the inwash of the fered in search of it out of their and, leaning over the side of the tide. In a moment Mr. Fisou accustomed zone; first waylaying boat, began hacking at the spiring seized the car from Ewan, gave one and following ships, and so coming arms upon the oar shaft.
vigorous stroke, then, dropping It, to our shores in the wake of the At Mr. Fison, staggering with the ran to the bows and leapt. He felt antic traffic. But to discuss, Hem- quivering rocking of the boat, his his feet allde over the rock, and, by aley's cogent and admirably-stated teeth set, his breath coming short, a frantic effort, leapt again towards arguments would be out of place and the veins starting on his hands a further mass. He stumbled over here, as he pulled at his oar, suddenly this, came to his knees, and rose cast his eyes, seaward. And there, again.
of the shoal were satisfied by the not fifty yards off, across the long "Look out!" cried someone, and catch of eleven people for so far rollers of the incoming tide, was a large drab body struck him. He as can be ascertained, there were large boat standing in towards was knocked flat into a tidal pool by ten people in the second boat, and B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for them, with three women and a little one of the workman, and as he went certainly those creatures gave u Because of the frequency of pri- 1st and 2nd class passengers.
child in it. A boatman was rowing, down he heard mothered, choking further signs of their presence off son riots in Spain in recent monthe and a little man in a pink-ribboned cries, that he believed at the time Sidmouth that day. The coast be a special "Prison Security Corpe" straw hat and whites stood in the same from Hill, Then he found tween Seaton, and Budleigh Salter has been constituted by decree of EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, stern, hailing them. For a moment, himself marvelling at the shrillness ton was patrolled all that evening the Republican Government.
of course, Mr. Fison thought of help, and variety of Hill's volos: Some- and night by four Preventive Ser Members of the corps will be ats- and then he thought of the child: one jumped over him, and a curving vice boats, the men in which were tioned at the prisons to help the He abandoned his oar forthwith, rash of foamy water poured over armed with harpoons and cutlassen, warders keep order, Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney threw up his arms in a frantic ges- him, and passed. He scrambled to and as the evening advanced, a They must be aged between 25 ture, and screamed to the party in his feet dripping, and, without look-number of more or less similarly and 35, and are 10. be recruited the boat to keep away "for God's ing seaward, ran as fast as his ter- equipped expeditions, organised by from the civil guard, the th sake!" It says much for the moror would let him ahoreward. Ba- private individuals Joined them. police and ex-servicemen Reate desty and courage of Mr. Fison that fore him, over the flat space of Mr. Fison took no part in any of he does not seem to be aware that scattered rocks, stumbled the two these expeditions, Regular_monthly saflings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japas there was any quality of heroism workmen-one a dozen yards in About midnight excited halls were
in his action at this juncture. The front of the other,
ter heard from a boat about a couple perhaps, be significant that a "I believe that the horror and nar he had abandoned was at once. He looked over his shoulder at of miles out at sen to the south-east cachalot was stranded of Sark on anguish which the criminal feela The Unim & Company's steamers to the United Kingdom,vie New drawn under, and presently reap last, and, seeing that he was not of Sidmouth, and a lantern was seen June 8. Two weeks and three days during those moments are more Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
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astonished. From the moment of fro and up and down. : The nearer Haploteuthis came ashore on Calais | before the blade - feil
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away.
After death the brain goes on living for several minutes and can feel pain," accgding to Dr. Serge Voronoff-the rejuvenation" speciālist,”
In an interview with the Rome newspaper "Piccolo," he states; When the gillotine cuts) off the head of a criminal the head continues to live for a few minutes, and the brain roes on thinking,
At the same moment Mr. Fison the rising of the cephalopods out of boats at once hurried towards the sands....... It was alive, because The other organs of a man felt the boat under him lurch vio-the water, he had been acting too alarm. The venturesome occupants jeveral witnesssa sam its tentacles who la decapitated, or who dies lently, and a hoarse scream, a pro- swiftly to fully comprehend his of the boat, a saman, a curate, and moving in a convulsive way. But an accident, survive still longed cry of terror from Hill, the actions. Now it seemed to him as two schoolboys, had actually seen it is probable that it was dying. longer, The bones live on-for- boatman, caused him to forget the If he had suddenly jumped out of the monsters parking under their A gentleman named chet ob- eighteen hours, the kidneys, liver, party of excursionists altogether. an evil dreams
boat. The agrifurca, it seems, like tained a rifle and chot
ds for about six or eight.
He turned, and saw Hill crouching For there were the sky, cloudless mat deep-ses ofganisms, were That was the last appearance of by the forward rowlock, his face and blasing with the afternoon sun, phosphorescent, and they had been a living Hoploteuthis. No athers convulsed with terror, and his right the sea weltering under ita pitiless fasting, five fathoms deep or so, were seen on the French coast. arm over the side and drawn tightly brightness, the soft creamy foam of like creatu down. He gave now a succession the breaking water, and the low, the black
of short, sharp cries, "Oh oh oh! long, dark ridges of rock The | tentacles
Shanghal, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama.-oh!" Mr. Fison believes that he righted boat floated, rising and fall foling orit
Moll, Kobe & Yokohama.
Mr Sh1. Moll, Kobs & Osaka, S'hal, Moji, Kobe A Yokohama. S'hal, Kobe Yokohama.
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..!
must have been hacking at the ten- ing gently on the swell shout a lowly in****
tacles below the water-line, and have dozen yards from shore, Hill and wards, the south-
Hipp through the 15th of June a des
their most complete, was alf asleep, near Torquay, and a moving a boat from the Ma formation to station, engaged in
Plymouth,
been grasped by them, bits of the monsters, all the stress and These people told their story in specimen course, it is quite impossible to say tumult of that fere fight for life, gesticulated fragments, as first now, certainly what had happened. had yanfahad
The boat was heeling over, so that never
the gunwale-was within ten inches
of the water, and both Ewan and violen
cutlass
though they had] boat", drew alongside and then
of eight or pins bosts čoll gether, and from them a tum
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