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Record Journey by Aeroplane.
A man who breakfasted in London the other day took the train to Farabrough, fisw, an aeroplans to General Headquarters in France, had luncheon there, and dew back, arriving in time to have dinner the same day in Portman-square at 8 o'clock.
Huge Shipping Profits, The annual report of the Booth Steamship Company, Ltd., states that the profits, after making pro vision for war taxation, amounted io $449,353 and provides for a final dividend on Ordinary shares of 5 per cent, making 10 per cent for the year; 498,990 bas bean carried forward,
Mammoth Submarines, It is reported that Germany in building submarine' cruisers of 5,000 tons, 18,000 horse-power, with a length of 130 metres, and a speed of 26 miles on the surface and 10 miles submerged. It is added that the ornisers will be capable of voyaging from the Baltic to Japan without re-faeling They will be fitted with 30 torpelo tubes, and will have practically the same armament se a medium-sized craiser:
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Viscount as Private. Viscouns Bolingbroke, Lydiard Park, Swindon, who attained his twenty first birthday on March 15th, has joined the Army s8 s prirais. He left barracks few weeks ago in the uniform of a private soldier, and has gone to a training camp. Lord Bolingbrck-offered himself for the Army in November, lt14, and wah joted. In September, 1918, he war peseed 0.1.and in Da cember applied to be examined. by the Central Medical Board on the ground that he had been delicate nines ahildhood. Slege of Port Arthur Recalled. It is reported that the remains. of Japanese soldiers who perished during the siege of Port Arthar are still being recovered from time to time. In a recent case, the Nagasaki Frzax states, two complete sections, which ́ had probably been destroyed in an Besult, were found in the neigh. bourhood of a fort. The swords snd other equipment of the fallen heroes were found nearly introt, as the remains bad besa-embed- ded in dry ground, and it wAL ponible to fidentify_the_men_by the marke on the articles, The remains were interred in the mausoleum, without the relativos being notified, however, as such notion would only have neodlasely revived sorrow.
Tears to Order. Miss Clara Kimball Young, the emotional star of a film "The Foolish Virgin," ectually cried herself to pieces during the pro- daction of that drama. "Fen persons realise," sepe Miss Young, "how hard it is to supply tears,
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