a ship signalizes its consort

Soone as those glitterand armes he did espye, / That with their brightnesse made that darknesse light, / His harmefull club he gan to hurtle hye […]

The true type of the crapaudine is 4 inches broad at the superior part, and becomes very regularly thinner until it reaches the length of 11 inches, which is the average.

During this summer of 1944 the Japanese pushed on with dogged purpose. They were coming toward the American air bases at Liuchow and Kweilin. Should they get that far, the whole American combat air effort in China would be marked down to little. From there, the Japanese troops would be able, unless Chinese forces not then in sight were brought against them, to press on either to Kunming or Chungking or both.