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...William Joynson-Hicks, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, informed the House of Commons that bullion to the amount of ?3,817,232 had been salvaged from the steamship Laurentic, sunk by a German mine off the northwest coast of Ireland on Jan. 23, 1917. The Laurentic lies in 138 feet of water...
...from Castle Garden to Governor's Island. A cable across the English Channel was attempted by the Messrs. Brett in 1850. They organized a company and enlisted the coöperation of Cyrus Field in 1854. After repeated failures, a cable was laid from Newfoundland to Valencia Island, Ireland, by vessels proceeding from the middle in both directions. On August 17, 1858, the first message went over the wire : " Europe and America are united by telegraph. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward men." The first cable consisted of a core of seven...
What made the speech "surprising ' was that such coherence, such sense and such spirit should come from the lips of a woman of 93- for Mary Harris was born in Ireland in 1830. She was taken to Canada at the age of seven, was educated there, and later went to the South and worked in the cotton mills. There she fought child labor. There she married and had four children. There husband and children were swept away by yellow fever...
French finesse prevailed over Irish energy when the French Davis Cup team defeated Ireland on Dublin courts. France thus qualified to meet the Swiss team in the Semi-Finals...
...idealism in its entry and prosecution of the War, has gone to the opposite extreme in the making of peace. For taking this course history will probably be even less sparing of us than our present-day critics. . . . The League is a God-sent haven for such states as Ireland...