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...early days of the rum fleet were however concluded by the American coast patrol, which seized several thousand cases of contraband liquor belonging to Sir Broderick's company. The Baronet admitted that this disastrous coup exhausted his funds. He gamely stuck at it, however, and announced that he would next try to land cargoes through the "Bahamas International Trading Co." if he could finance the new organization. But the British press frowned upon the venture. The influential London Daily Mail warned prospective investors against it. The apparent result was Sir Broderick's recent bankruptcy...
...Good Friday, April 21, 1916, the German submarine U-719 eased up out of the sea off the west coast of Ireland. As the conning tower hatch was raised, a tall, thin, cadaverous Irishman with thick black hair and a pointed beard looked out. His complexion, deeply tanned during the long years he had spent serving the British Crown in the tropics, was now grown sallow and his forehead showed a network of tiny lines. Though Edward VII had knighted him, he was now about to commit the last act in a conspiracy of high treason against the realm...
...University figures have not been compiled for this year, it is estimated by the College Office that there are over 500 students whose homes are so far from Cambridge as to necessitate their spending most of the recess in travelling. Of this number approximately 200 live in the Pacific Coast states, and over 20 are from various possessions outside of the United States. Many of these students have made plans to visit in the east during the holidays, but it is for the remainder that these entertainments have been planned...
Appropriations for prohibition enforcement come to $21,940,529, including $12,634,000 for the Coast Guard but not including extra appropriations for the Department of Justice for this purpose...
...flight, had given orders that naval officers should use their own judgment in making flights. He said further that the Shenandoah was not sent on a propaganda mission but was on a training flight, since the ship might at any time have been compelled to fly overland from coast to coast for military purposes...