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...Western Australia, near Exmouth Gulf, oil drillers struck salt water at 3,600 feet, the same level at which a nearby well had hit oil. In two frenzied days of panic selling, some stocks dropped as much as 50% on the Sydney exchange; the total value of oil shares dropped an estimated $67 million. Australia's secretary...
...freighter Exmouth, second U. S. relief ship (the first, the Cold Harbor, docked last fortnight at Marseille), sailed for France, carrying 12,000,000 lb. of evaporated and powdered milk, 150,000 articles of clothing for children, 500,000 units of insulin, 20,000 bottles of vitamins - as well as 12-ft. red crosses on both sides, and floodlights to illuminate them at night...
...Washington last week the American Red Cross announced that it had chartered a second "mercy ship," the S.S. Exmouth, to carry $1,250,000 worth of relief supplies to Unoccupied France. The first ship, the S.S. Cold Harbor, is expected at Marseille next week. When it arrives the people of Unoccupied France will stage a three-day celebration...
...British destroyer, the Exmouth, struck a torpedo or a mine (probably far out in the North Sea) and sank with her entire complement, about 188 men. Thus in the war's 21st week Great Britain lost the fifth of the 185 destroyers she had when the blockade of Germany began last September. During the week German mines and torpedoes sank below-average tonnage: 8,111 Allied, 35,178 neutral. Meanwhile, the sea war did not change in character, but an announcement from Germany suggested how it may change...
...Pellow was the eldest son of Henry E. Pellow, who is a cousin of Viscount Exmouth and brother-in-law, as well as cousin, of the present Viscount Sidmouth. His mother was a sister of John Jay. He was born in England in 1860, and was educated in this country, first at St. Paul's School, Concord, and later at Cambridge. He was graduated at Harvard in 1880, and three years later took his degree at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was afterward admitted to the New York bar. but soon turned...