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TELEGRAM.

(Reuters)

The War,

LONDON, 8th August. According to a St. Petersburg telegram, a fierce battle was fought on the land-side of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THE WAR

MINES IN OPEN SEA.

Sir John MacDonnell, one of the highest authorities on internationallaw in Great Britain, when asked by a newspaper correspondent his view on the subject of 'he alle.rd sowing of

* COMMERCE DESTROYING IN WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10 1904.

WAR.

PREDECKSSORS OF THE VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON,

Port. Arthur on the 5th instant, in which the mines in the open seas be the Russiaps, se have earned for the three vessels composing at Gibrallar, and declared unfit for further ser. Winslow, a former shipmate of Captain

Japanese are reported to have been repulsed with great loss, the number of killed alone being estimated at 10,000. The Russians

lost about 1,000.

General Stoessel felegraphs that Japanese attacks on Port Arthur on the 26th to the 28th were repulsed with enormous losses, The Russian losses in three days amounted

to 40 officers and 1,500 men.

TRADE REPORT,

BY A COMMERCIAL AGENT.

The Minister for Agriculture New. South Wales has received a report from Mr. J. B. Suttor, Commercial Agent for that Stale in the East dated at Kobe, from which the following extracts are taken

It is the general opinion that Syndicate shippers are a hatle over-cautions in the matter of freights and war risks. I am decidedly of opinion that the chances of shipping from New South Wales falling into the hands of the enemy are very remote. New South Wales shippers need not have any cause for aların, so long as the vessels do not venture on the Sea of Japan.

It is quite apparent that satisfactory results are now being experienced as a result of my visit to Japan, and fre orders sont for New South Wales products. Already large quanti

plied:

"I think that with our imperfect knowledge of the facts, it is quite premature to express an opinion as to what has been done by the Rus sians in the waters adjacent to Port Arthur. I am reluctant to helleve they resorted to the expedient, wasteful and altogether uncertain in its effects of sowing or cattering mines in waters outside their territorial zone. Every belligerent is free, I take it, to destroy his op- ponent's vessels in territorial waters or the high seas by all the customary means, including the

use rf mines. If in an attempt to sink the

enemy's ships he accidentally destroys neutral property, it would be unanswerable to claim damages done on the high seas.

Let me add one remark suggested by much that has already happened in this war. In re- gard to maritime warfare neutrals are no longer united, as they once were, in arresting the en: croachments of belligerents. When only one or two nations had, or aspired to have, great Davies, other countries were agreed on a course of action or, at all events, were jealous of any diminution of neutrals' rights on the high seas. Now, all is changed. Several nations possess powerful feets, and hope to strengthen them If they look forward to the possibility of bein

strong, not supreme, on the sea, they liesitate to condemn acts which, on their part, they would have severely reprnhated, because, they say, "Who knows how soon it may be in our

from which as neutrals to-day we suffer! I be lieve this will prove the key to much that we shall witness in this wat."

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"But within a few days, the United States steamer Krap.rge commanded by Captain

Semmes, anived at Cherbourg; and she made a demonstration which the officers and crew of the Alabama- rithing under the abuse that had been heaped upon them, and aware that their career had been inglorious-regarded and resented as a challenge. Captain Semmes knew and probably shared their feelings,

from New Orleans, then strictly blockaded, stores. She had been nearly two years at sea. was over before the end of the year; but she and had got into bad condition; her speed and had captured 184 vessels, had spread alarmsailing qualities were considerably impaired. through the Northern, seaports, and had put | Permission to make the necessary repairs was shipowners and merchants to heavy charges | given by the authorities of the port of Cher- for insurance; and by disinclining merchants" | bourg. to ship their goods in Northern vessels, had

"ALABAMA" SUNK. THE "SUMTER" AND "ALABAMA.“ |

seriously injured the shipping trade of the The exploits of the Vladivostok Squadron Northern States. Eventually she was laid up

it-the Rossia, Rurik, and Gromovoi-areput vice; had she been seaworthy, it would have ation as commerce destroyers which by future been very difficult to carry her out. of à part historians will entitle them to rank with the where she was diligently watched by Northern notoricus Confederate cruiser Alabama, which cruisers. She lind, however, verified the antich during the American Civil War so effectively pations of the Confederate Government; and served her side by preying on helpless merin 1862 this Government found a successor for chant vestels. The Vladivostok Squadron's her, much better fitted for the work to be done, record is already such a long one that if the and destined to far greater celebrity. This warships are allowed to continue their work of was the Alabama, destruction, it is no exaggeration to say that the merchant marine of Japan will be in jeo- pardy. The squadron's first successful effort in the destruction of Japanese craft was inade in February, a few days after the commence- ment of the war, when a small Japanese steamer, the Nagaura-aru, was sunk. The squadron did not make another raid for some months, until the beginning of May. when it signalised its reappearance by sinking the transport Kinshiu-paru. Its next exploit was in June, when the small steamer Goyo maru was sunk at Gensan, and a few days later

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and determined to gratify them; he sent notice to the United States Consul that he would sail out and fight the Kearsarge. The two ships 5.S. ALABAMA." The Alabama was constructed by Laird &

were, in appearance, not unequally matched; Sons of Birkenhead-a screw sloop of 1040 advantage in number of crew, speed, armament, in reality the Kearsarge had considerably the tons register, built of wood, swift in speed, with two engines of 350 horse-power each, and and general condition; besides that she was barque rigged The Alabama was pierced for protected amidships by armour. The fact of twelve guns, and had the means for carrying her being thus protected, and the extent of her two heavy pivot guns amidships. She cost superiority, seem to have been unknown to £47.500 without equipment, and with her Captain Semmes. The fight took place on armament £51,716. In June, 18 2. Semmes Sunday, the 19th June, outside the port of was appointed to Super-ntend her equipment Cherbourg, all Cherbourg gazing at it from the and take command of her when ready for sea.neighbouring heights. The Kearsarge having The strictest secrecy was observed by the Con- the superiority in sailing, was able to keep at a distance of about 500 yards from the that the nature and destination of the vessel enemy; her armour in a federate officials having charge of her in order,

great measure should not reach the ears of the British Govern-protected her from the enemy's shot; and, as ment and also the U.S. representatives in might be expected, her uns were better Great Britain. The identity of the vessel was so well concealed that she was nearly ready for the fight had lasted an hour, Captain Semmes sea before she was suspected by the emissaries found this slip was sinking, and gave THE Company's Steamship of the United States. Captain Semmes and the orders to pull down his flag. The boats were superintendent of the Building of "No. 290," as

got out, and the wounded placed in them; but she was known at Birkenhead, had little

before the Kearsarge could come to the rescue,

the public and municipal law during the

of the Kearsarge saved many of the crew. construction of the vessel,

Others, including Captain Semmes, were pick- According to previous practice, it had been held lawful

ed up by the English yacht Deerhound, which to build vessels for a belligerent in neutral ports, in rescuing the Alabama's crew. "These the had been allowed by Captain Winslow to help and lawful to purchase guns and stores in neutral ports, though they might be for the

Deerhound immediately carried within neutral equipment of vessels thus built. What had been held unlawful was the equipment with gons and warlike stores of a vessel

served than those of the Alabama. Before

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"MERIONETHSHIRE,” Captain G. C. Cundy, will be despatched for

the 27th August.

ties of wheat have arrived, and more likely to interests as belligerents to do the very acts an extended cruise, which began a few days difficulty in avoiding any infringement of the Alabama went to the bottom. The boats the above Ports, on or about SATURDAY,

be ordered. New South Wales wheat is highly spoken of, and with favourable season we are bound to do well, but must pay careful atten- to the quality and soundness of the bags the wheat is conveyed in.

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SERIOUS CUTTING AFFRAY.

A delay in shaving has caused serious trouble to Han Woo. On the 5th inst., he entered the barber shop of Shum Shing to have his head shaved. He wanted that opera- tion in take place at once, but Shum Ki, an-

the war-ships descended as far south as the Korean Straits, sinking the large transports Hitachi-maru and Ideumi-maru, and seriousty damaging the Sado-maru, The same cruise was marked by the capture of a British steamer and the sinking of two Japanese sailing vessels, while later a small merchant steamer was sunk off the Hokkaido. Retiring to Vladivostok, the squadron "lay low" and coaled preparatory to

ago. The first steamer sunk was a small Japanese coasting steamer, the Takashima maru. Then it was learned that the British steamer Knight Commander has been sunk and the German steamer Arabia captured. The squadron has thus destroyed or inflicted damage upon some ten vessels, more or less arge, with a loss of between one and two thousand valuable lives and a large quantity of cargo, mostly material for the Japanese forces, With the exception of the loss of life, the re- cord rivals that of The Alabama, a vessel whose COMMERCE DESTROYING EXPLOITS

BUILT FOR A BELLIGERENT

I specially mention the matter of bags, for my attention has been drawn to some very defective bags containing wheat by the Piwats Maru of February last. Some of the bags were simply rotten in places, caused, no doubt, through the wheat being stacked in the field before sending to the seaboard. Defects of This nature have a very bad effect in the East, freely spoken of, and hence a bad advertise ment for New South Wales. I therefore invite seized a chipper and cut Shum Ki on the left £3500,00", and it may therefore be interesting she was gone.

special attention to the soundness of the bags, and request that they be looked to at the time of loading. It is also very advisable to send a fair percentage of spare bags with each con- sigament..

latter would not give up his turn a quarrel en sued, during which, it is alleged, Has Woo hand, nearly severing his first two fingers, The matter was immediately reported to In- spector Smith, who had Shum Ki removed to lios-ital and Han Woo placed under arrest, At the hospital it was found necessary to am- putate the fingers, which was done. This morning Han Woo was placed before Mr.

other customer, was before him, and as the

ultimately cost the British Government over

to recall the career of that famous vessel, and of its predecessor, the Sumter.

When the Civil War broke out the Confe derate States found themselves without a navy unlike the North, which promptly instituted an effective blackade of the whole of the Southern

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in a neutral jurisdiction. Without going into the details of how the Alabama succeeded in leaving the English port, it is sufficient to say that when orders were given to detain "No. 296"

jurisdiction. Semmes and the others saved by this vessel were afterwards charged with having broken their faith as prisoners who had asked for quarter from the Kearsarge. As regards the Deerhound, the seamen of the Ahidama once upon its deck, were entitled to the protec tion of Great Britain, and no previous compact could have deprived them of it."

The Alabama, so long a

TERROR TO HELPLESS SHIPPING, was at last sunk in fair light. The destruction

she wrought was so great, and in effect so al- arming, as to produce a very marked' diminu- tion in the number of commercial vessels carry-

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for Saloon Passengers.

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For Freight or l'assage, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, toth August, 1904.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. PAQUEIOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.

NOTICE.

STEAM FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, PONDICHERRY, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, ADEN, DJIBOUTI, EGYPT, MARSEILLES, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX;

ALSO PORTS OF BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE,

On the 13th August the Alabama arrived at Terceira, one of the Western Islands. A few days afterwards the vessel was joined by Captain Semmes and his officers, and by a vessel from London carrying guns, stores, and I am now very hopeful of gond results for

a supply of coal. By the 24th August, the desing the flag of the United States. Her career our tinned meat, but at the onset it is highly

ports. The Confederates determined upon fit-troyer was ready for sea, and now Captain Sem matched might rain each other at sea. Her demonstrated how completely belligerents fairly important to supply at the lowest possible quo} Gompertz when evidence was given substan-ting out small and swift vessels, each armed

mes produced his commission to the sailors, end was more honourable than her career, and tation, in order to get a fonting, for the com

with a few heavy guos, whose work would be petition for the Japanese market is very keen. tiating the charge preferred against him of cut-

named his vessel the Alabama, and hoisted the As per my cables a large number of horsesting and causing grievous bodily harm to Shum

Alabama and the other vessels were British, are likely to be required, but definite informa-Ki, defendant having nothing to say in his de- tion is certain to be delayed until the question fence.--Dr. Laing, of the Government Civil

all entered for foreign service, but with few exceptions they enlisted under Captain Sem- mes at a high rate of pay. The crew consisted of eighty men all told, and the armament of

ceeded lier own cost. Indignation was rife few days she had burned property which ex- Alabama was on the 5th September, and in a

pirate Semmes" bad several fast-sailing cruisers searching for him.

to cruise against the merchant marine of the Confederate flag. The sailors on board the demonstrated how helpless is the greatest gal. this Port for MARSEILLES, via Ports of

Hospital, stated that the complainant was ad

of freights can be reduced to a satisfactory { mined to the hospital at 3.10 p.m. on the cih men, and in sympathy with the Southern cause.

fantry against superior armament and equip. ment. Her career of course raised an import ant question between Great Britain and the United States, one which might have ended in the gravest consequences for both countries, but which was finally submitted to a Court of

England and the United States and three other members appointed by the King of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation, and the

ON TUESDAY; the 23rd August, at 1 P.M., the Company's Steamship "TOURANE," Captain Girard, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave Call, WITHOUT TRANSHIPMENT.

This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with the Australian Line S.S. Armand Béhic bound- for MARSEILLES vid BOMBAY and ADEN.

don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon. transit through Marseilles for the principal

basis. I am advised that large orders have gone inst., suffering with injury to his left hand. parties was beyond healing, and when hopes eight 32-pounders, The first capture of the Arbitration, consisting of representatives of places of Europe.

Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon only on MONDAY, the 22nd August Specia and Parcels received until 4 F., on the same day. No Cargo will be received on board on

as per standards known as prime stirrup and both fingers. The chopper would cause just Alabama, was commissioned by the Southern throughout the Northern States, and soon "the Emperor of Brazil. The Court met at Geneva TUESDAY.

sessions.

Northern States. The South lacked nothing in able naval officers, as the majority of the senior officers of the U.S. navy were Southern

In 1861, before the breach between the two forward for compressed fodder, also barley,

The tendons of the first and second fingers of a peaceable settlement had not been ex- I am of opinion that the other Stairs of the Commonwealth are benefiting by my reports second finger being cut through. The injury name is notorious in connection with the were cut, as well as the joints, the bone of the tinguished, Captain Raphael Semmes, whose from the Eası,

There is an active demand for good leather

was so severe that witness had to amputate

prime skirt, and it is quite possible that 10,000

such injuries. The complainant is still under leaders to purchase ships and stores for the South. Semmes found it very difficult to sides will be required in a month or so.

treatment in hospital and will be so for another There is an active demand for good tanning ten days. The prisoner was formally commit-purchase ships, as none were to be had, and bark, and I feel a good business can be worked ted to take his trial at the next criminal it was not until several months after the commencement of the war that the Con- up if the New South Wales product can be sup

federates were able to send their first armed plied at a reasonable rate. Messrs. W. H. Gill

cruiser to sea. This was the Suter, previously and Company do a large business in this line,

a small trading steamer, and which did con- and principally import oak bark from America.

siderable damage to Northern commerce" before it was condemned as unseaworthy "Captain Semmes," says one authority, "who was appointed her canimander, was singularly qualified for the work expecled of him. He was a native of Maryland, about fifty-one years of age; he had been a commander in the United States navy, and now held the same rank in the service of the Southern States. Besides possessing high professional abilities and attainments, he was a man of acute intel- lect and of decided character; and he was thoroughly instructed in the

I, therefore, advise that the matter be taken up with Messrs. W', H. Gill and Company, or any of the other firms mentioned in my previous despatches. If a bark can be produced of a lighter color than the wattle it should command a ready sale. It appears the wattle back pro duces a darker leather than the Ameri an oak,

and also has a very objectionable smell, which

is also conveyed to the leather.

There is still an active demand for all classes of lead, and the demand is likely to continue. Very large quantities are coming in from Ame- riča, still I am înclined to the belief that the present high prices will continue, and the future of the lead market is worthy of careful con sideration

On the 14th instant I cabled you with refer- ence to Siberian and Eastern products. la consequence of the war and difficulty of carry ing by railway, there is likely to be a great falling off in all Siberian products This should have a decidel bearing on the London and other markets.

As regards Eastern products, it is generally thought that the outlook is in every way favour.

able, and excellent returns expected,

ON THE LINKS,

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Cards returned at the monthly meeting held at Happy Valley from the 6th to the 8th instant were as follows:--

CAPTAIN'S CLUB

Mr. T. F. Cobbs

21

11

95-18=77 T. C. Gray........ 90-1278 C. M. G. Burnie...... 82-2-80 Major Prichard... tot-18=83 20 entries.

Mr. T. C. Gray

11

1

POOL.

90--12-78

C. M. G. Burnie...... 82 2=80 Major Pritchard........ 101-11-83

30 entries.

SHIPBUILDING RETURNS.

From the returns compiled by Lloyd's

warships, there were 392 vessels of 993 088 tons Register of Shipping, it appears that, excluding grass ander construction in he United King- dom at the close of the quarter ended 30th June, 1904.

HER SKIPPER.

in December 1871, and gave its award in Sep. tember 1872, by which it was decreed that

A brief summary of his career is given framing the vessel from leaving a British port, and

Great Britain was responsible for not prevent papers compiled by Captain Semmes, which we should pay the United States the sum of reproduce as follows:-

£3,229,166 139. 48.-Kabe Chronicle.

COMMERCIAL.`

RICE.

Mr. Wm. G. Hale & Co., write in their cir- cular, dated Saigon, 29th uit ;~The advance in prices advised in our late issue has been well kept up during the period under review, owing to supplies being confined to small arrivals of contracted grain and to a fairly good demand which has been prevailing for Java, Philippines, China, etc.

"Captain' Semmes made for the American coast, which he had determined to make his first cruising ground. He was ambitious of making a few captures within sight of New York; but running short of coal, be was obliged to give up this somewhat daring scheme, and make for a coaling station. He afterwards lay on the track of the Calif raia mail steamers running between Aspinwall and New York; and after waiting for some time, he captured the Ariel mail steamer, with 140 marines, several United States officers, and 500 other passengers on board. A heavy gun and a quantity of specie were all he took by this capture, but it greatly raised the prestige of the PRINCIPLES AND DETAILS OF INTERNATIONAL | Alabama, and incr.ased the alarm of American shipowners. The passengers and crew of the and etiquette. He seems to have united with | Ariel were too numerous to be taken on board the good qualities of a naval officer the quali- fications of an able lawyer, diplomatist, and publicist He could be trusted to secure for a war vessel of the Confederacy, however small, every advantage to which she was entitled from neutral Powers, and of the other belligerent alike, nothing which was not strictly their don;to carry out without flinching, uninoved by laun ́s Alabama and # United States vessel, and abuse, the work of destruction which was which still further augmented the reputation of letter, we passed a number of wounded expected at his hands. is career in the the former. Cruising Galveston in Texas, the Japanese belonging to the force outflanking us.

LAW

the Alabama; and as Captain Semmes found fever raging at Kingston in Jamaica, at which port he intended to have landed then, he was unable to destroy the vessel, and had to set her free, after taking a bal for a large sum to be paid on the 11th January, 1863, an encounter occurred between the

On the other hand, Exchange, during the earlier part of the period under review, had gone up by several points thus checking busi mess with Europe.

The closing tendency of our market is de- cidedly upward, as dealers in the Interior hold on their stocks for higher prices and that there are good many large contracts falling due in August which require grain for falfilment.

A LETTER from an officer named Prosickin

shows that the Japanese are artists even in death, "During our retirement," reads the

The tonnage under construction is now about 4,500 tons more than it was at the end of March, 1904. Compared, however, with the total reached in September, 1971, which is the Sumter is a record of triumphs won over Alabama gave battle to the United States gun-Seeing one of these, apparently writing a letter

As mentioned in my previous reports, I have highest on record, the present figures show a not neglected the import int matter of cold star-

reduction of 420,000 tons, or about 30 per cent, age works, and have had repeated interviews, 1

Of the vessels under construction in the am glad to state the proposal is now taking United Kingdom at the end of June, 313 of

neutral Governors and Ministers, who were! disinclined to admit the little Sumir to the position of a belligerent war-vessel; of clever avoidance of the enemy's cruisers, of which

boat Hatteras, an old vessel, somewhat "her inferior in armament, and suck her after a few broadsides. The destruction of the Hatt ras and the capture of the Arish were the

MOST REMARKABLE EVENTS

I went over to him. He was sitting in a pool of blood with a badly-arranged bandage on his left arm, and a look of suppressed agony on b.s face. Across his knee, face downwards, was a

definite form, and endeavours are being made to 750,982 tons are under the supervision of the several were always on his track; and of the start a company for the erection of cold storage surveyors of Lloyd's Register with a view to des'ruction of, valuable ships and cargoes be- in the career of the Alabama until her closing tattered map, and on this, with a stick dipped i

at Kobe and Yokchama. In connection with this matter there must be gene settled ar ange

ments arrived at in regard to freigh's for cald

storage from New South Wales to Japan, and it would be advisable for the E. and A. Com pany and the China-Navigation Company to carefully consider the ques ion, and advise their local agents accordingly, so as to be pre- pared with the information when the company is formed. Meat, mutton, and butter are advancing at a rapid rate in Japan. If by any chance the scheme should fall through, I strongly urge that the matter should be taken up by the New South Wales people, "..

I have had long interviews with the Kawasaki

classification by the Society. In addition, 59 vessels of 150,861 tons are building abroad with: a view to classification. The total building at the pre ent time under the supervision of Lloyd's Register is, thus, 373 vessels of go1,844 tons, Details of this toml are as follows:-

No. Giross Tonnage. Building in United King- dem for home account, for sale, &... Building in United King-

dom for foreign and. colonial account... Building abroad for United

Kingdom owners

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268

Dock Yard Company, and feel it is only a mat-Building abroad for United ter of time when large orders will be placed Kingdom for foreign

with New South Wales timber merch nts. The Kawasaki Company are very powerful people

in Japan, and I have impressed the president and chief engineer with the excellent qualities of New South Wales timbers,

account...

Total building on 30th June

45

+

48

for classification in Lloyd's Register Book 37a

628,743

longing to the citizens of the United States scene arrived. Her history consists of a mone The Sumter and her captain were soon known tonous succession of captures made in different throughout the world. The enemy called seas, her prizes being merchant vessels incap.. Captain Semmes a pirate, and could they have able of resistance, which were burned, or, when caught him would probably have treated him there was convincing evidence of the neutral as a pirate. But he appears to have doeownership of the cargo, which did not often nothing but what it was his right as a belliger happen, liberated upon bond. She captured in ent to do; at any rate, he was scrupulous not all 65 vessels, and the value of the property to exceed the precedents of international law. she destroyed has been estimated at 4,000,000 It was upon his system of burning his dollars. It was, however, by, the heavy insur "aptures, not upon the captures themselves, ance, for war-risks to which she subjected that the people of the Northern States them, and still more by the difficulty she founded their charge of piracy; but no Con caused them in getting freights, that the federate port was open to him for the dia. Alabama's, career inflicted the greatest, in- 735posal of his prizes; and his treatment of them, jury upon the shipowners of the United

though it greatly.

Siates. When the pursuit after her became too hot on the American coast, she sailed for 143.52 which had seen scarcely anything of naval war the Cape of Good Hope, and cruised in the fare, was warranted by precedents, and was Eastern seas. Returning to Europe, she ar probably, though not unquestionably, within | rived in the English Channel in jone," 1864, 901,844 | big right, The cruias of the Sumter, which | and on the rith June entered the French port began on the 30th June, 1861, with her escape of Cherbourg to rent and supply herself with

122,739

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in blood, he was laboriously sketching a feld gun on the top of a hill, with a little Japanese infantryman running straight at the muz I gave the artist a drink of water."

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