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...considerably less than three-quarters of that of Nevada, the least populated state. It is shaped, roughly, like the head of a bull turned upside down, one horn being the Alaska Peninsula, the other what is known as the Panhandle, a strip of territory extending down the Canadian coast. Its population, about half white and half Indian, averages less than one for every ten square miles, and is congregated (as much as it can be said to be congregated) along the Southern coast...
...making an effort to gain a firm foothold on the Pacific Coast. The July 1 number of The Marine Worker (published free of charge by the Marine Transport Workers' International Union, No. 510; address Box 69, Station D, New York City) gave some indication of the propaganda which the I. W. W. are carrying on in Los Angeles. It is published about 25% in Spanish and carries such slogans as: Boycott all California-made Goods and Motion Pictures. You Cannot Fight the Boss and Booze at the Same Time. Be Like a Mule and Kick if Conditions...
...Marine Worker is an interesting illustration of I. W. W. propaganda in use on the Pacific Coast and elsewhere, and written in the vernacular, is intriguing to the average reader. Its communications are signed " Yours for the next big strike, Del. T. R. 598, Card X58406...
Fifty-six were lost in the English Channel, 26 in the North Sea, 16 in the Mediterranean, 16 on the East Coast of England, 12 on the Dutch coast, 3 near Heligoland, 2 in Scapa Flow, and the remainder scattered throughout the world's oceans...
...Bulgarian seaboard was confined exclusively to the Black Sea. At the same time, however, the Allies promised Bulgaria an outlet on the Aegean; it being recognized that such an outlet was an economic necessity. In 1921 the Allies made Bulgaria an offer of an enclave on the Aegean coast; this was unacceptable to her without a corridor through Western Thrace to the Bulgarian border. Last week, Professor Zankov, new Bulgarian Premier, accused the Powers of bad faith, thus: "Bulgaria made many promises in the Treaty of Neuilly (November, 1919) and has fulfilled them all. The Powers made only one concrete...