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Word has come from Germany of the acquittal, in the series of trials and investigations into German submarine atrocities, of Lieutenant Neumann, commander of the U-boat that sunk the English hospital ship, "Dover Castle". He was adjudged to be not responsible, because he had orders from those "higher up". Marshal von Sanders, who by his own confession encouraged the massacres in Armenia, has also been freed of any stigma, in that he was acting under "instructions from the Government". Furthermore it now seems probable that the man who torpedoed the Listerine, and all the other submarine commanders will escape...
...fuel charges, and the labor can be hired for a few cents a day. Yet in 1917, when wheat was selling for about eight cents a bushel at the place of production, the transportation charges from there to the United States were so great that it was unprofitable to ship it. Futhermore, most of the cost was due to inefficient transportation in China itself. The cost of sending the grain down the river to Shanghai was greater than the cost of shipping it across the Pacific...
...letter themselves are whimsical, rambling and discursive accounts of the life of asteamphi engineer on the Seven Seizes, the routine of the ship illumed by McFee' day Scottish humor, glimpses of people shipmates, stevedors, and the vast motley collection of people met by he sailorman ashore, and also the auhers thought, his views on art, on books and all the magnified impressions of a full life...
...University Italian Club. This is the first dramatic venture of the club since the war, and the proceeds of the performance will be used to establish an Italian Scholarship Fund to be awarded by the University on the basis of character and a desire for American citizen-ship to a needy Italian boy wishing to obtain an education at this College...
...Dorothy's departure, he plans a meeting to prevent the landing aat Savanah. Unwittingly he acquires the aid of two sailrs who have planned a bona fide mutiny, and for a time the revolt takes on alarming proportions. It is put down, however with no damage to the ship but the decimating of the biscuit isupply, Knowing well that he must remedy this condition, Captain Driggs lands on Uneeds Island in the Bahamas, where the company is immediately attacked by Voodoos...