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...dump into any post office great bundles of circulars for which they would pay the usual rates. Each letter carrier would have been given a bundle with orders to leave one circular at each stop on his route. Overburdened postmen would have stooped even lower under this enormous new load. Declared Postmaster General Brown, rejecting the proposal: "There is no provision of law authorizing the acceptance of unaddressed matter. . . . [It] would place upon the Postal Service the responsibility of selecting the particular individuals to whom the matter is to be delivered, a function clearly the duty of the sender...
...Station at Killingholme, England, a N.C. 2, two Liberty-motor flying boat, Curtiss type, built at Naval Aircraft factory, Philadelphia. Four men, oil, fuel, water, armament (machine guns and two bombs), with detonator device fixed, rations and even two carrier pigeons. Total weight: 10,440 Ibs. Flying full-load weight, specially groomed, flew continuously overhead eight hours-record at that time. This experiment was made, and successfully too, for the great effort to bomb Heligoland-Kiel Canal, never attempted due to British opposition. Forty sea planes, mates to above described, were to do the job. Eight hours to over...
...Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...
Going to pieces with damp rot in the Patuxent River off Chesapeake Bay are the once magnificent Kronprinzessin Cecilie (now the Shipping Board's Mt. Vernon) which at the outbreak of War made its famed dash into Bar Harbor, Me. with a load of German gold, and the Kaiser Wilhelm II (now the Agamemnon). For these N. G. L. will get $4,287,000 and $3,829,000 respectively...
Pratt Praised. A prime charge of anti-Treaty men has been that Britain dictated the kind and number of cruisers the U. S. might have. Provocative to anti's and disturbing to the Treaty's friends was a load of British praise which fell last week upon Admiral William Veazie Pratt, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, as one of the few U. S. Navy men to support the pact. In London the Naval & Military Record, semi-official organ of the British Admiralty, declared...