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...past two years, however, the Firestone Rubber Co. has obtained a concession for the establishment of rubber plantations within the republic. This will mean the opening up of the whole area, the establishment of a great industry, and the employment of thousands of natives who have had hitherto little or no contact with civilization. The inevitable result of such an enterprise will be the development of the economic resources of the country and a profound modification in the primitive culture of its savage population. Almost invariably, industrialization of a country inhabited by primitive people has resulted in the destruction...
Even larger must be the mass that struck the-Province of Yenisei, Siberia, in 1908. The place had been a forest. It is now a bare area churned up for several miles. Russian scientists, led by L.A. Kulik, tried vainly to dig up even fragments of the meteorite. They were buried too deeply. This year the Russians may explore again...
...eight, are his by a previous marriage. She?"Captain" Barker? was originally Miss Lilias Irma Valerie Barker, daughter of a rich, landed proprietor on the Isle of Jersey, Thomas William Barker, who died some 15 years ago. Miss Barker was in service at Mons and elsewhere in the War area as a Red Cross nurse and ambulance driver. In 1918 she married an Australian officer, Colonel Harold Arkell Smith, who begot her two children. Some five years later she discovered her tendency to transvestism, yielded to it, renounced home and family, courted and married Druggist's Daughter Alfreda Emma Howard...
...which took Vera Cruz ?and appeared to have squelched the revolution south of Mexico City?was commanded by General Juan Andreu. now chief of staff to General Calles. Leaving the Vera Cruz situation quiet in the hands of a subordinate, General Andreu hopped by airplane to the rebel area in the north. Trainload after trainload of artillery (on flat cars) and soldiers (in box cars) which had started from Mexico City for Vera Cruz were switched back and rushed to aid General Calles...
...thinking and writing of 'temporal power' and 'temporal sovereignty' this should be remembered and the fact made known: The new Vatican State, in area, will be only about one quarter of a square mile, or something like 160 acres...