The Clinton News Record, 1916-01-27, Page 2G. D. ItleTAGGNItT
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of Huron.
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selling Phone 13 on 157
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guaranteed.
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piano. Its rich, round,
renging tone; it
\,„ ant 'treble and rich,
organ -like bass, have
made the .
Heintzman & Co.
Piano
the choice of the
world's great artists.
The Heintzman Piano
is bought by people
who want the.
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Fertilizer
We carry 'a Complote Stock of
Stone's N101114,1 Fertilizer. No
better on the market.
Hay
We pay a.t all seasons the highest
market prices for.Hay for baling
Seeds
American Feed Corn, Red Clo-
ver, Alsike, Timothy and Alfalfa.
ir
FORD & McLEOD
CLINTON.
ALL KINDS OF
COAL, W00%
• TILE in=
TOORDER.
All kinds of Coal oh hand:
CHESTNUT SOFT COAL
STOVE CANNEL COAL
" FURNACE • COKE
BLA OK SMITHS WOOD
2% in,, a in. and 4 in. Tile •of' the
Best Quality.
CANADA'S TRADE
RAPIDLY EXPANDING
REVIEW 'BY THE DEPARTMENT.
, OF CUSTOMS.
Statemtht , Reveals Heavy Inereaeca
'fa Both Imports mid -
Exports,
• A despatch.. from Ottgwa: , says:
Trade Statistics covering the nine
months of the fiscal Year eliding
cernher 314,.issued the ether day by
the Itepatttheat ,of Caste*, thew the
iiemtnerce of Canada to, be expanding
enormously, - ' •
YOU should always keep
bottlo •of Chandwriainle
Stomach and Liver Triblete
on the shelf. Theditelo folk
so often need a mild and
safe cathartic and they do
appreciate Chamberiam's
insteacrof natureobs oils and
mixtures. • For stomael1
troubleeand constipation. give Onefust before
going to bed. AU druggists, 26c, or send to
, CHAMBERLAIN MEDICINE CO., TORONTO lo
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Nt_foihsEs I
f?'„7,lenette, the G. T. R. Station.
Phone 52.
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Cutlery
Supply ?
You know that Jewelry Store
Cutlery is out of the com-
mon class. At least, OURS
is.
It carries a distinctiveness -
an air of superiority, that
comes from being made with
the greatest care and ut-
most skill from the highest.
priced materials.
If you can use some of this
Cutlery in your home, you
will be proud of it every
time you see it on the table
Carvers, eased, $3.00 up.
Knives, Forks and Simons,
$1.00 doz. up.
Knives and Forks, steel, white
handles, $3.00 doz. up.
Let no show you our Cutlery
line. Let us tell you more
about why it is the most '
desirable that you can put
your money into.
W. R. COUNTER
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money making specialties. Our
agencies -are tbo best in the busi-
ness fez' we sell the highest grade
of stock at most•reasonable prices
and guarantee deliveries in first
class condition. Nursery stock is
selling wellthis year and good
money can be made in this dis-
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PELEArd NURSERY CO..
&Toronto, - Ontario.
There is a
Cold Day Coming
Who not prepare for it by
ordering your winter'. supply
of Lehigh Valley Coal. None
better ha the world.
House Phone 12.
Office Phone 40.
A. J. HOLLOWAY
-TIME TABLE. -
Trains will arrive at and depart
from Clinton Station as follows:
BUFFALO AND GODERICH,DIV.
Going Bests. depart 7.33 a.m.
tt tt 8.03 p.m.
o it st 5.15 p.m.
Going West, ar. 11.00, dp. 11.07 a.m.
" " depart •1.35 p.m.
" ar 6.32, dp. 6.45 p.m.
" " departs 11.18 p.m.
LONDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV.
Going South, ar. 7.33, dp. 8.05 p.m.
" departs ' 4.15 p.m.
Going North, ar. 10.80, dp, 11.00 a.m.
" " departs •6.40 p.m.
The lIcKillop Plutual
Fire Insurance Company
Head office, Seaforth, Ont,
DIRECTORY
Officers;
J. D. McLean, Seatorth, President. J. Con.
Oodench, irho.
Rays. Seaforth, See:Treas;
Directors, D. F. McGregor, Seaforth; J.
GI, Grieve. Winthrop: Wm. Rinn, Sea.
forth; john Benneweis, Dublin; J. Evans,
Beechwood: A. blalwen, Brucefield ; J 13.
McLean Setforth; J, Connolly, Goderichl
Robert Ferris, Ilarlock,
Agents: Ed. Rinchley, Seatorthl
Chesney, Eginondville; J. W. Yee, Ilelmcs.
ville; Ales Leitch, Clinton; R. S. ja,r.
moth, Brodhagen. •
Amy racneY to be paid In may be paid to
Morrish Clothing Co.. Clinton, or at Cutt's
GrocerY, Goderlch,
Parties desirous to effeet insurance or
transact other business will be promptly
attended to on application to any of th,,
above officers addressed to their reepeet.
pre post.offiena. 'Ankles inspected by Qs
director who lives nearest tho ems.
-,wwraommasesseessaessensueseeesslaaneseessmosenaaw
THE CHILDREN
OF TO -DAY
lust as they ane, -in their in.
door play, or at their outdoor
play -they are constantly of-
fering temptations for the
KODAK
Let it keep them for you, as
they are now.
Let it keep many other hap.
penings that are a source of
pleasure to you.
BROWNIES; $2 TO $121
RODARS, $7 TO $20.,
'Also full stock of Filins and
Supplies. We do Developing
and Printing. Remember the
place;
T 11 IE
REXALL oT
Taking into account re-exports and
the movement of coin and bullion, the
grand total of the trade of the Do-
minion for the 'nine months reaches
the imposing figure of $1,012,436,803,
compared with $837,009,759 for the
Corresponding period of the previous
fiscal year. That the volume is in-
creasing is ehowiihy the December -re-
turns, the trade of last month having
readied a total of $148,815,964, cam-
fififed. With 470,382,903 Ter 'the Sdine
month in the previous year.
The December statement . reveals
heavy increases in both imports and
exports, without taking into account
the movement of gold or the export
of foneign merchandise. ' For the nine -
months' period the , hnpoets . a
slight shrinkage, amounting to $343,-
923,332, as against_1348,746,920, but
the December -imports increased from
$30,392,913 to 845,690;721. '
Export- of ddmestIe merchandise in
Decertiber totalled :892,171,402. In the
previous Deeentb,et :Hick amounted, to
the comparatively' low figure. of $37,-
493,600, While' in the nine months'
period they jumped from $306,323,039
to 8511;534,048. The increases in ex-
ports were found in nearly every col-
umn. Manufacturers rose fromr $3-
18,926 to $119,$.92,269. Agricultural
produce from 0.06,008,923 to $202,-
506,936, and animals and their pro-
ducts fican 858;436,71.2 to $78,559,424.
The inland revenue returns,. iseued
Thursday, also show a- substantial in-
crease,. the total for the Month being
$2,416,195, as against $1,801,774 in
3PR...7.t-Trear.
the coriesponcling..moni%
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LATEST GERMAN
• POISON DEvn
Prussic Acid Shells Arc Being Used
On Riga. Front By the
Germans.,
A despatch fom Landon says: The
Petrograd correspondent of the Daily
Mail quotes a report from Kieft to the
effect that the 'cessation of the fight-
ing on the southern front, owing to
the sudden thaw, has been availed of
to replace many Austrians by Ger-
mans, apparently from Field Marshal
von Hindenburg's army on the Riga-
Dvinsk front. The Correspondent
says the Germans on the Riga front
are using shells filled with. prussic
acid, the gas fumes of which *me ac-
tive even four and five hours after the
bursting of the shells. Splinters from
these shells are deadly and quickly kill
even slightly wounded men.
BELGIAN HOUSES BURNED
BY THE GERMANS
A despatch from Havre, Frence,
says that a report has just been is-
sued by ,the Belgian Government
ngiv-
ing the umber -of houses in the vari-
ous Provinces of Belgium which, the
report says, were burned by the Ger-
mans. The following figures are
given: Brabant, 5,821; Liege, 2,703;
Antwerp, 1,800; Malines, 1,748; Din -
ant, 2,232; Namur, 1,710; Philipeville,
1,301; Huy, 255; Verviers, 681; War-
ereme, 16; Turnhout, cf0; Total, 18,20'7.
The figures for Flanders are not yet
obtdinable.
ITALY TO FIGHT TO.
THE mrrEit END
'A despatch from Florence, Italy,
says: In an address delivered here
Antonio Salandra; the Italian Premier,
said: "We thought this would be a
short and easy war, but it has become
a long and a had one. We had
thought that all the hardships would
be of a military character, but we find
it difficult even behind the front to
keep tni fighting. However; we are
going to do it, and we shall persevere
until victory is won."
,
IIUGE RUSSIAN SURTAX
ON GERMAN GOODS
.A. despatch from London says:
Upon the reassembling of ,the Russian
Duma, .says a Reuter despatch from
Petrograd, the IVIinister of Finance
proposes to introduce a bill placing a
sertax equivalent to -five times the
amount of the Customs duty on goods
of hostile belligerents, especially Ger-
man, with a view to preventing their
entry into Russia.
NAVAL INCREASE }IAS
BEEN AGREED UPON
A despatch .from London says: A
vote for 50,000 additional officers and
inen for the British navy was agreed
upon ie the House of Commons on
Friday afternoon. Thie will bring the
total number of men in the navy in
the cereent year up to 360,000.
GERMANS LICK OF WAR.
Men In the Trenches Are Now Ardent
Peace Advocates.
Mr. Romaine Eoland. of Vienna, who
is is steong advocate of peace, contri-
butes a letter to the Se,maine Litter-
:aire from a German soldier who is
rfigranteng; in the trenches in northern
"My whole experience at the front,'
the letter says, "and everything I hear
and see in these trenches strengthens
my conviction that every mom who has
anything to do with this war is sick
and tired of it. My only wish is to be
able to return home and never again
have any part in warfare. I ,can as-
sure yen now that the fighting Men
here to -day are the peace advocates of
the future and of peace at any price.
All these men who weim so enthusias-
ide to go to the front sincerely hope
and pray that they will net live to see
needier was on this earth, and that
their children's children will be spared --
such horeors in their lives. It 1,s for
this reason that these tired, wernout
and disgusted soldiers are -willing to
continue fighting until a lasting Peace
is declared,'
Farmer's WIfe--"Are you the same
man who ate My apple pastry daet
week?". Labover--,"No, mem, t
never be the Same men, again,"
'ttont tornplsil,a ou n you, hSoS
when the remedy lies right to luend. Gin Pills
'slop bncknehes, and they do it in nn easy
natlfral way by going right to: ti,e root of the
trouble
1
FORTES ItION'ETS .
!Oiin ' is ' rieb 'On lirichieys 'and the
bladder. They soothe and heal the inflamed
organs, which ure causing the suffering.
Neglect your Icidneys and swollen bands and
feet, wrists and ankles, are likely to follow.
A dose of Gin Pills in Clue saves a world of
You will realise their vaftte when you read
What Mrs. j. P. '1'. Wedge, of guranterside,
P.F.T. writes
"Gin Pills are the greatest of all I014.
ney remedies and a medicine whith is at
of good nese
are worth their Weight in gold, so any
, Get GIN rirAs to -clay at your dealer's.
50e. ik box, or 6 boxes for $2.50. Trial treat. -
meat 10RZE if yeti write
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National Drug &:Chemical Co.
a Canada, Limited, Toronto
INDIA COVETED
JEWEL OF THE EAST
MEANS SUPREMACY IN EUROPE,
SAID PETER THE GREAT.
Have the Gentians Designs on the
British Dominions
In Asia?
"On to India!" The cry has been
raised in Berlin. A highway of battle
and conquest and imperial power from
Beelin to Bagdad, and on through
Mesopotamia to the head of the Per-
sian Gulf, even to Britain's. Asian
treasure houses of wealth, seems too
vast an undertaking, with foes on
every side, foes behind and before;
but the bigger the task and the more
stupendous the effort the stronger
seenis the appeal to the war managers
of Germany. Thirteen months ago
the well-known General von Bernhardi
named India .as the certain goal of the
Teuton armies. "We shall- goto In-
dia," he said, "and the native peoples
evill welcome- us."
But the Teutonic designs on India
are older. They are at least as old
as the "Berlin -to -Bagdad" project.
The Bagdad railway is Germany's
"Suez Canah" the symbol of her
dreams for empire eastward, the can -
meeting link :from Berlin to the Per-
sian Gulf -and beyond lies India, the
pearl of the British Empire's crown.
From the standpoint of war strategy,
India, as Von Berehardi Said, is Eng-
land's feet of day. •
France and England struggled for
possession of India. Peter the Great
of Russia dreamed of a far -stretch-
ing empire balanced between Europe
and Asia, with Constantinople, the
capital of the Caesars for 1,100 years,
as the capital of Russia, and left to his
successors the folloeving injunction:
"Keep in mind that the commerce of
India is the commerce of the world,
and that he who can exclusively con-
trol it is the dictator of Europe." This
injunction has never been quite for-
gotten.
"Money Graveyard of the World."
The aim of each nation that has
ever sought dominion -in the great re-
gion known as India has been com-
mercial and not colonial. As Admiral
Mahan pointed out in "The Problem of
Asia," India constitutes a highly im-
portant "base" of military and naval
Power as well as an area valuable in
itself. As a source of wealth it is the
richest "possession" on the face of
the earth. It: yields annual revenues
of $500,000,000. The balance of trade
is always in favor of India. As a re-
servoir of precious Metal India is bar-
barically splendid, This fabulous ac-
cumulation of concrete wealth is an
interesting theme.
From the hitest commerce reports
comes a vaet amount of interesting
information concerning the absorption
of treasure by this great country.
India is what two different writers
have called respectively "the great
sink of 'precious metals" • and the
"money graveyard of the world." For
twenty-five cehthries there has been
a constant flow of gold and silver into
India from the Western nations. It
has been- ono of the unchanging eco-
nomic conditions of the world, and
one which milers of different lands, der
pletecl for it, have tried in vain to
stop.
Complaints of -India's appetite for
gold beg:an in the time of the Cartha-
genians, who in the .fourth century
B.C. disposed of gold they procured
from Spain to that conntry. Pliny
tens of unavailing protests made in
the first year of the Christian era of
exportations of the precious metal
from the Roman Empire, neaely 315,-
000,000 of it being sent annually tO
India. Queen Elizabeth, in 1600 tied
in' vain to counteracli the flow of gold
from her country to- India.
Small inroads into this enormous
hoard of! treasere liave been made un -
Willingly in times -of famine, but as
long age as 18.04 a writer estimated
that precious metals locked up in In-
dia, in trinkets alone, amounted to
$2,000,000,000. Gold has been used
through the centuries by • India as
other peoples :have 'toed gems and
paintings and objects of art for the
gorgeous ornamentation of publie
buildings and Nieces, Gold is locked
lp in the Iveasure charebors of the
for Merchants. and traders, and 81
poor people, who have secreted it i
nooks and crannies, es we'll as in th
earth, have sometimes died of starv
tion rather than part with it.
One of the most impoetant Mahata
jahe of India has calmon of eolicl gol
that precede him evheis he goes abon
He has &ales, tablee and .a bed, a
wen as water jugs, of silver and go?
It, is said that London bullion dealei
have exqiiiciitely polished bars p
gold to supply the wants of India
princes,. All classes itt India are af
feeted by this ,epirlt of hoeedin
They prefer to put 'their savings i
gold to anything else, Coins are con
verted into necklaces, bracelets an
anklets.
, Fortunes in Jewels.
Immense fortunes in India are )
Jewels, but there is no authoritativ
method of computation of the oxtail
of this form of wealth. The Imperil
Gazetteer of 'India described fift
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DO YOU SUFFER
FROM BACKACHE?
When your Iriduoys are week and
torpid they, do not properly perforers
their functions; , your back aelleS
and eyou do not feel like'doing much
of anything. 'You ore likely to be
despendent end to borraw trouble,
just as if you hadn't" enough ale
ready. Don't be a viethn any longer.
The old reliable medicine, Heoll',e
Satsaperille, gives streeigth and
tone to the kidneys aed builde
ihe svhole system. ,
Ilood's Sarsaparilla is a peculiar
sombinatien of roots., barks and
herbs, No other medicine ;leis like
it, because no other,tneelleitie boa ;het
n same foinnila or iuroeclionls. Accept
c 110 sebstlinte, bat insist on having
t Hood's, raid got it today.
1
years ago a shawl of pearls, with a,
arabesque border of diamonds, rubies
sapphires and emeralds, valued a
$5,000,000... There are tales of ear
pets, of pearls and great diamond
which have become world-famous.
Estimates and statiStics which shm
in detail how this vast :amount o
treasure has reached India are inter
esting. ,By the authentic record
kept by the BritiSh Government sine
1835 it is shown that 81,600,000,000
Vlore of gold has gone into India than
has come out. In less than a century
$2,000,000,000 of the two preciou
nietarilldS Seell aleSeRiniVind thee'
figures show only a continuation of
movenient going oh since the days o
the Phrenicians.
'The Prize of the World was sough
from the earliest periods of history.
The attempts of Holland, Portugal,
and France, iethe period just preced-
ing the modern age, to secure the
largest share of India's trade form
an important chapter in the ,history
of the world. The desire to find a
short ebute thither by sea furnished
much of the impetus given to -explor-
ation during the fifteenth century and
led to the achievement of Vasco da
Gama. The conquest of Constan-
tinople by the Turks had laid a heavy
obstacle in the path of the overland
traders. Columbus sought the Orient
and found the Western Hemisphere.
In the seventeenth century the fam-
ous East India Company joined in the
rivalry for the trade of India and
opened the way for the extension of
English influence and power 'over the
.whole country. Then came that re-
markable experiment, of government
by
A Commercial Corporation,
and it was not until the middle of the
nineteenth century that this control
was finally and fully transferred to
the British Crown and not till then
that "welfare week" for the people of
India began to make substantial pro-
gress.
India, probably, has never been well
understood by Occidental peoples,
British -exploitation and philanthropy
present' a story mixed in reasons for
praise and blame. Certain it is that
in India may be fonnd the most hete-
rogeneous aggregate of peoples in
the world. Mengols, Aryans, Per-
sians, Greeks, Scythians, Huns,
Am ,
bs, Afghans Turks and Moguls
have passed into this vast' region,
founding kingdoms and empires, mix-
ing in greater or lees degree with
their peedecessors, and leaving some
mark on language, .customs and re-
ligions.
If India is still a mystery even to
her rulers, it was pnly a name to the
Greek and Roman world. Alexaii-
der's visit was brief. Greece was
Greece and Rome was Rome, and
beyond were the barbarians. East
was East and West was West after
the crusades. Marco Polo brought
back a little information and traders
of the Middle Ages returned to Eu-
rope with the goods of the Orient.i
British rule wrote new chapters of
romance and cold facts of history.
Kipling 18 not so much an interpreter
of India, as of the British occupa-
tion.
Romance and History.
• pire. In this India, at a later time
, the celebrated Tamerlane flourished:
.1; It is the countrY of .Sikh princes and
_ the rajahs of Mysore; of astral belle
,e and occult wonders; of the Taj Mahal
anti PenareS, sacred city of the Hies
dos; of Delhi and the Durbar;
Clive and Hastings; of the BlaHckold
of Calcutt“ and 'She Relief of Lucks'
s now; of families and mutinies; of
e tyranny and enlightened government;
of caste and Christian missions; of
an ancient and now brolcen
tion, beside which env own, in the
s eyes of the true lndu, is like outee
rhttkensa,. a And •1rees alsegye
a I the fatal gift of beauty and wealth,,
and the strife of -,the nations of Eus
eope for possession of "the pearl of
the -East" is not done.
The period of British rule is but a
small fraction of India's history,
Eastward from the Iranian plateau
the Aryans descended into the Pun-
jab as early as 2000 B.C., ancl spread
through the peninsula, expelling or
subduing the aboriginal tribes. Here
grew up long before the time of
Christ two of the most influential re-
ligions of the world, Brahminism and
Buddhism, and a literature rich in
poetry and mystic philosophy. The
epics of the Mahabharatst and Rama.
yana contain legends of wars which
must have been of much importance
in the early histoey of the Vedic Em -
A COLD CURE THAT CURES.'
May Come In Handy This Treiteherons
Wintry Weather.
"I've cured my cold," he said. "P11
tell you how I did it. The informatioil
ought to come in handy this treachers *
ous weather.
"I boiled a quart of wormwood and
horehound together and drank it hot.
Than I took two pine, and put one '
kind of plaster on my chest, another I
kind on my back and -a third kind un-
der each arm.
"Thaeks to my governor's advice, ,
had sense,. enough to clap a mustard
plaster on my stomach also, and te
sleep with red-hot bricks at my feets' '
"An old lady brought me a bottle ire
of goose oil and showed me how to
take it -you suck it, you know, off
quill. My uncle from the country turn-
ed up with a bundle of herbs; these
herbs made a tea that I took a cup of
every half hour. On a 'cousin's ad-
vice I got outside an enormous. dose
of salts.
"My wife got me to take three pills
of her own make -they were brown,
bitter ami about the size of eggs,
They did me good, too.
"The crisis was now reached, and I
retired to my bedroom. There, after
tossing off a pint of tar balsam, I tal-
lowed my nose, steamed my legs in as'
alcohol bath and took large doses of
hot rum, spearmint tea and castor oli,
which were severally recommended by
a sea captain, my minister and my
grocer. Then I took seven different',
kinds of pills, wrapped round my neck
an old. stocking of my svife's soaked
in hot vinegar and salt and got Mid
bed.
"As I dozed off they burned feathers
on a shovel before me.
"That completed the cure. I am noW
well. I recommend this simple, cure
to cold suffers."
• .-se--
4Could You Believe IL?"
"Man, Sandy, what thin legs you've I
got," said the minister as he met 1
Sandy coming through a field. "Wed! !
sir, if you had come 'through the I
trouble I've cense through you widl
have thin legs tae." "Inn sorry to
hear that, Sandy, but what trouble 1
have you some through ?" "Weal, sir,
when 1 wis a bit laddie I had the wear j
my faither's boots, an' they were se I
big for me I had the stuff straw in th
tees. Weel, sir, yin day the calves pi
ma legs came doon an' ate up the'l
straw, an' they've never , game bask 1
since."
A Failure.
"I hear old Gotrox has lost every
dollar he had in the world."
"You don't say! What was ite-c
failure ?''
"Yes, heart failure."
Lakes free from ice owe their irtn,
munity to their depth, and to the pre -
Bence of springs.
GERMAN EGYPTIAN CARAIGN
• DELAYED BY LACK OF COAL
fillies in Syria, Used by the Romans but Abandoned '''''1":"6
1,000 Years Ago, Have Been Reopened
A deepatch from Leedon says: Gees
many's campaign against Egypt is
meeting with unexpected obstacles, it
is announced here, dee to the lack Of
coal to operate the railroad which
they have constructed southward
through Syria to the edge of the des-
ert approaching the Suez Canal. The'
construction of the refitted has been
largely facilitated by French rails and
materials for 0 similar line, which was
partially constructed, but the absence
of coal prevents the actual opening me
of the road to transportation.
This lack of coal haseled the Ger.
mans to reopen the old Turkish mines
in Syria used by the Romans, but
abandoned by them a thousand years
ago. The capacity of these mines is
limited to 600,000 tons annually. A
large force of Turkish laborers is en-
gaged in developing the mines, which
are now the chief reliance in getting
the railroad to Egypt in operation.
FEAT OF BRITISH SURIARIN
ON THE IPPER ADRIATIC
Sank
Austrian Hydro -aeroplane and Also Torpedo
Boat, Which Went to the Rescue
A. despatch from London says: Adriatic an Atitriat hydeo-aeroplene
despatch of the Exchange Telegraph and also an Austrian torpedo beef'
Gempany from Rome says a Britishwhich wont to the roscte, taking the
psesces, it is used „00 a basis of credit submarine line sunk, in the upper eerews .of 'loth craft erlsoner.
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