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government and the work of are stamped out of the metal at dozens theat out for transport service would be of factories, each plant specialising on rapidly pushed to completion..
The work one part, which is sent to the docks at Kiel or Hamburgs. Wherever it it, there on all these ships was begon some time the machinists are waiting for it, and go by private contract under the Ship the quantity of shipping destroyed by two weeks from the time the bread ping Board. The Navy Department has mined the U-boat in ready to sink taken over this work under its own
in the principal provincial towns and hospital ship, as so frankly confessed The sixteen vessels on which the naval industrial centre of the United Kingdom, of the American people towards this hos
oficial bulletin. And there's
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A copy of the current edition will be hitch the total caausities in a battle or
crow is not..
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From two to shree months are required troops on a given
With the vessels
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anquipment.
Dealers 'asking Agencies can advertise man
so little do mot of 14 know about sab the use
use of the complicated machinery, marine warfare that when the monthly and accustom them to the seasick motionering expedition and the regiment of their trade cards for £1, or larger adver
to France, facilities will eat tisemente from £3.. in a messag
of the boats, it is said in Berlin that band to send over American soldiers connage appeared
1,900,000 instead of the greatest loss when submarine fails much from laugh so much before 600,000 it was both printed and talked to return is the crew, and thanks to much more rapidly than had been
about as if i
anticipated. rect. War under the snaring exploits of the Scottish were correct,
The Berman vessels were built with Home Sweet Hotno shreatening shape, this slowness of the February Ackerman, who has just re-achieved, but they will not be German
being now war in its most acote and sailors, Germany was short of men on the ide
idles that they might serve as naval fauxiliaries. This purpose is now to be Carl plorable and steignificance
turned from a stay in the German auxiliaries. There have been intimations is not entirely, is is not, in our Empire, writes in the New York in official quarters that American in- that at the beginning of the gennity has been unusually successful in
bad
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even dangerous.
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AJRILIHUN FAN,Almunem proviarti extent
Ierature, as a rescher to ripe Coffelalawad Merchants En tiebe Golong furton gear (
gente Chinees, camminton, sar i pomanam He had action or valssing Fairopains
main with those who have
the facta clearly and refue
da: Arat tala surtidents as a Chinese taschm, die and
leo & kood knowledes of Mandartu and ́Eskelen. ind painstaking persons at There who intend learning the Chanze
heut occupy themselves in
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Alto No. 102, Wellton Struct Brot on a bout 80 to 100 have been lost through |
here requeried to write on “China ist® Of what the
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SAVARESSE'S SANTAL CAPSULES
WHYSICIANS RECOMMEND 'DIME KADE IN LONDON GOT ÁLSCHEM
us: The British Admiralty has for a cruising radius of 5,000 miles, down to long time published, not the amount of the maller craft designed for use against tonnage Tont weekly but only the num the coast of England, and which cannot ber of shipe destroyed. To 99 people out be more than 15
15 days away from their of 10 the numbers convey no informa. base. But Germany could not use all tion st
Worse than that, they those 100 boats against the Allies and positively mislead. The vessels sunk are the United States. Nearly 100 were. divided into two classes, over and under
der waiting for
for rows...
and to supply the much are they over 1,5001 Ingenious for boats are now, it is asserted, 1000 tons. But the whole point is how deficiency Germany established a school
about 326 submarines in operation, and proba amount to. They strike an average, usual British nets alone, according to an inter- ly in the neighbourhood of 4,500 tons view with a member of the crew of the They multiply the number of ships los
submarine U-58. which sank the Dutch by that figure and triumphantly present grande
hips in February
The
W-58 was Come commanded by render in: 100 xas | Plastan
BY Captain according three or four the interview, that this is pure guess work. It has to the submarine p more value than crystal razing or torpedon against the Dutch ships and thought
transference. The ships rank thea: he all ships; too many of the the mayag mich gi70S GUN • BORG!? When At-sea 1 lack the speed
them a chance of escape.
Eeople must
to us the result
Not one newspaper
to
YOU
between them, anking bombs and sheil fire.
ses the submarines assemble given at every morning id instracting presumably
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nd. There are about 7:39 full comprehension of the submarine U-boats of the newest spe, each peril, is the exact figures of the amount ing a crew of 56 mon, and this feet is of tonnage estroyed
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