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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1927)
R U S S IA TU TTie P A R A O IS E Oil Ship Recaptured by U. S. S. Pigeon More than 100 armed Chinese soldiers, who had seized a Standard oil vessel on the Yangtze river, were forcibly removed when the ship was recaptured by the mine-sweeper Pigeon at Ichnng. The photogrnph shows the I’ lgeon. Russian Recruits in Crimea. (Prep ared b r the M atlosa! O ea«raphle only a few feet above sea level. On one aide Is the Black sea nod on the H IL E the thermometer was other the stagnant, shallow, melodor- 40 degrees below zero in oua waters of the Slvatch, or Putrid Moscow recently. almond sea. a lagoon o f the Sea of Azov. This trees were flowering In the la the only broken natural land con Crimea on the Russian shore o f the nection between the- mainland and the Black sea. This contrast emphasizes Crin*-a, but a few miles to the east Russia's vast ness as well as It brings a narrow part of the Putrid sea has to notice a delightful spot o f the huge been bridged by the railroad which country little known In Its details to enters the peninsula. Americans. Yet at the same time. It Is Still farther eastward a peculiar a land with certain aspects known to every school child. It Is the land o f natural formation, a mere threadlike the Cimmerians about whom Homer I causeway o f sand known as the sang In the “ Odyssey" and from whom Tongue of Arabnt, stretches for more the peninsula takes Its name; the land than fifty miles from the mainland to o f the Crimean war, the siege of the base of the "flounder’s tall” that Sevastopol, and the “ The Charge of forms the easternmost extension of the Light B rigade"; the land In which the Crimea. A canal has been cut Florence Nightingale first caused effi through this spit of sand nenr its cient, ordered mercy to have a part northern end to connect the waters of the Sea o f Azov and those of the In war. Putrid sea. The Intrenching or min The Crimes Is known as “The L it ing of these three narrow land en tle Paradise" to the Tstnrm, last o f the trances to the Crimea would be a rela many races to overrun the peninsula tively simple matter from the point of before the Isnd fell under the sway o f view of military engineering. the Muscovite. A traveler Journeying The greatest width o f the Crimea from the north Is likely to accept this north and south Is 11.1 miles, and Its appellation. If at all, with a strong mental reservation as he crosses the greatest length from "hend" to “ tall” almost desert-like plains o f northern is 225 miles. It contnlns about 0,700 C rim ea; but once over the mountains square miles, and Is thus approximate that rim the southern shore he will ly the size of the state of Vermont or approve the description with enthusi the Island of Sicily. The Crimen was conquered by Cath asm. There nature has made a won derful gnrden spot, the Riviera o f arine the Great of Russia In 1771 and Russia, a combination o f sen, moun remnlned n part of the Ruslan empire tains and riotous verdure that really until thnt polltlcnl entity’s collapse ▼led with Its famed Italian counter In 1017. The hulk of the population part In the dnys when czarhood was remains Tatar, though there Is an ad In flower. mixture o f both Greek and Italian Though a part o f what has come to blood In the nominally Tatar people. be looked upon on the whole as “ cold In the Crlmenn wnr fought by Eng Russia," the southern shore o f the land, France and Turkey against Rus Crimea brought to the old empire a sia the Anal test of strength came at touch o f the tropic«. <>n the mountain Sevastopol, on the west const of the slopes and In the sheltered valleys Crimea. Here the factors of unlimited grow grapes, figs, olives and all the resources operated In the allies’ favor. tender frulta; magnnllns, hays, and Through their command of the sen m yrtles; and a profusion o f wild flow they could secure everything needed, ers and grasses. That the delights of while the Russians could bring up Its mild climate were discovered early their supplies only across the barren Is testified by the ruins o f Greek, B y steppes, whose highways were marked zantine, and Italian architecture which at every step by the dead and the are to be found among the mosques o f dying, both man and beast. S oc ie ty W u k lM t o e D O W the later Tatars, the pnlnoea o f the Russian Imperial family Hnd nohtllty, and the magnificent modern hotels of the pleasure towns to which the pros perous classes of Russia flocked before the W orld war. Ynlta, In those care free days, was Russia'« Nice, Newport and Miami rolled Into one. Germans Seek to Regain “ That Boyish Figure” A back to nature movement has been started by Germans with Fnlstnfflan figures, who are endeavoring to regain that "boyish figure.’’ The men, lightly clad, engage In various kinds o f strenuous labor, with the hope of reducing the waistline. Their camp Is situated at Welsser Illrsch. near Dresden. THOMAS A. STONE Sevastopol and Its Palaces. An espeoitilly posed portrait of Thomas A. Stone, secretary of the newly established Canadian legation In Washington. It Is estimated thnt 50.000 British soldiers lie burled In the cemetery out side of Sevastopol. Before the World war this vast City of the Pend was watched over by a German who could SPANISH DICTATOR speak no English, but who was proud of his privilege of guarding the ashes Many Fascinating Features. of those who fell at Buluklnva and With n climate that borrows good Inkermnn. features from Florida and southern Sevastopol remained until 1017 a ('allfom la and bad ones from many places, the Crimen Is one of the most great military post for the old Russian fascinating hits of territory twtween regime, and It was as well the home port of the Russian Black sen fleet Portugal and Cochin, China. Its pop« lace a congress of races. Its Industries From there, according to cherished Im ranging from the growing of subtrop perial dreams, was to go forth, on the ical fruits and the housing o f Russia's Iiusslnn counterpart of “ Per Tag." the elite as they fled from the cold, to forces that would wrest the Bosporus the herding of sheep and the growing and Pardnnellea from the Turk, and o f grain. It was a place o f many sided place the cross of St. George over Con stantinople and the Cross of Christ activities. As the men of wealth of America over Suncto Sophia. have their winter homes In Florida The Imperial I.nrge palace, to which and those of western Europe hi»Te It was once decided to send the late theirs along the Riviera, the people of czar, Is situated at Llvndla, surround position In Russia hr.d their country ed by a magnificent park. It 1» of re seats In the Crimea. And beautiful cent construction, and was complete! places they were, for In Russia the only about fifteen years ago. Hnrd rich were very rich. by Is the simply constructed Small pal The peninsula la occupied by ap ace. In an upper room of which Alex proximately 000,000 people, mostly Ta ander PH died In no other country | tare, with a scattering o f Russians. In the world was the reigning ruler Greeks. Germans and Jew*. Cieatdl- possessed o f so many lands or such The first posed photograph taken ness and morality are said to be pro extensive properties as was the case of ’ Prim e de Rivera, dictator o f Spain. ▼erhlal traits o f the Crimean Tatars, In Russia who hare been undergoing the Influ Southern C rim e« Is a garden land. The Right Spirit ♦urea o f russification for several gen erations. They have taken up vine culture, fruit growing, and kindred occupations with a seal seldom equalled east o f the Aegean. The Crimea ta a peninsula that bare ly escaped being an Island. It hangs from the mainland o f South Russia down Into the Black ee*. like a glgnn tic watch fob shaped like a flonnder It Is attached by the narrow ribbon of the Isthmus o f Terekop, a strip o f land only three-quarters of a mile wide and Ita fruits were famous In the north ern Russian markets, and from Its grape* a full bodied, spicy wine was made. Vineyard* rov«4ed more than 19.000 acres o f the Crimes, and from them about 5 . 500,000 gallons o f fine- quality wine waa made each year. The waters around the peninsula abound In delicate flsh. such as red and gray mullet, herring, mackerel, tnrhot. soles, platen, whiting, bream, haddock pilchard, a species o f pike, whitebait. ** 1 « salmon and sturgeon. The spirit o f young America is shown by any «m ail boy with a *cooter. Ue knows he cannot hope to run over as many people as his elders can In their motor enra, but he Isn’t nt nil dis couraged by th a t H# goee right ahead and doee his best. De Valera Visits U s A gain Photograph shows Mayor James J. Walker greeting Earnon de Valera, leader of the Irish Republican pnrty, at the city hall in New York when De 1 alera arrived here from Ireland. ' eo Mussolini’s Secretary Gets Job . nwograph shows the Marquis fuulu.e de . „IN.ll , , * b o baa beeu made under secretarygeneral o M h ^ 'w i N * 0 o°«- 3 K* nernl o f ,h* 1 ° W O R T H REM EM BERING Mice are the most popular baby food for young horned owls. Electric motors In the Tnlted State* do as much week In a day as lTO.OOB.tXX» men. Sacred bulls lu Egypt were mum Splendid Rule* for Lifo mified and buried with great cere lA t not the emphasee o f hospitality monies after death. The w orlds largest airplane the Ue In bed and board; but let truth and lore and honor and courtesy flow j Barling bomber, has alx Liberty en gines which develop 2.440 home power. In all thy deeds,— F r->,r— £ - S i r * " 0* Ä «h er In th , G.n- W * ~ * • Club. b , TZJTdSi th,n S. 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