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Launching of the Lexington; ss by Sec Wilbur and Rear Adm Moffett
Captured gang, said to be most powerful now operating on Atlantic Coast, vanishes after giving fictitious names and cash bail; Burington Co Grand Jury likely to inquire into low bail; chief of gang gave name J M Cohen
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. -- The world's series of 1925 will be played on its merits, with the world's champion Washington club battling an opponent of strength untried against American League pitching, Stanley Harris, youthful manager of the Senators, said here tonight in making a statement for THE NEW YORK TIMES.
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1925Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (died 2012)[†]
Roger Wood was the editor of the Daily Express and New York Post.
1925Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji capture Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.[†]
The Great Syrian Revolt, also known as the Revolt of 1925, was a general uprising across the State of Syria and Greater Lebanon during the period of 1925 to 1927. The leading rebel forces initially comprised fighters of the Jabal Druze State in southern Syria, and were later joined by Sunni, Druze and Shiite and factions all over Syria. The common goal was to end French occupation in the newly mandated regions, which passed from Turkish to French administration following World War I.
1925S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, sinks during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with it the whole crew of 53.[†]
S2 was a Finnish Sokol-class torpedo boat that had been seized from the Russians after the Finnish Civil War 1918. She sank during a fierce storm on 4 October 1925, taking with her the whole crew of 53.