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...course, if you don't give us our due meed of praise in your valuable publication I shall be forced to perform a painful duty when next 1 visit your seaport: that is to shoot you so full of holes they can sift baled hay through...
...fair guess that an understanding exists between Russia and Japan to the effect that Russia will not interfere with Japan's activities in Manchuria. "The position of Manchuria is such that both Russia and Japan could use it to great advantage, Russia because it needs a seaport which is not ice-bound in the winter months, and Japan because it has no place to expand on the continent of Asia and Manchuria is the most accessible region for this expansion...
...been said that "it begins nowhere and ends nowhere." That is not very complimentary to Buffalo and Omaha, its terminals, or to the mining districts of northern Michigan, which it reaches from Toledo with its Ann Arbor Railway (99% owned). But "somewhere" to a railroad is either a great seaport or the gateway of a populous, raw-producing hinterland. The Wabash developed a system 2,500 mi. long, with 4,500 mi. of track, 701 locomotives, 26,000 freight and 411 passenger cars. Last week this whole property, $358,000,000 in assets, passed out of stockholders' hands into...
Mate Adams' Killing Sirs: In the Aug. 24 issue of your interesting magazine you published the news of arrest ef one L. C. Adams, mate of American ship Sundance, charged with the murder of one of his crew in a foreign seaport. As my occupation is similar to his I wish you would inform me of the outcome of his trial. . . . JOHN M. WHEATON Port Arthur, Tex. While the Sundance was discharging cargo at Ghent, Mate Adams dragged mutinous Seaman Myak Wooker, 6-ft.-6-in. Esthonian, from beneath a bunk. Seaman Wooker seized a fire axe. Mate Adams...
Karachi is a seaport on the Arabian Sea. It is the terminus of the London-India air mail and many industries are sprouting there...