Word: seaports
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Things rapidly went from bad to worse. What things and how bad they were before they became worse, despatches omitted. At any rate, a situa tion was created at the seaport of Ceiba which prompted the U. S. Government to send the cruiser Denver to the scene to protect U. S. and other foreign lives and property...
Last week, nearly seven and a half years later, the veteran Earl of Bal- four (Arthur James Balfour ennobled) set forth from the land of his ancestors for the Holy Land. Some days later, he arrived at Alex- andria, Egypt's greatest seaport. Thence went he to Cairo, the capi- tal, where he entered a special railway car provided by the Palestine Government and was whisked off across the Suez Canal to Palestine, land of two religions: Judaism, Christianity.* Lord Balfour went to Jerusalem, direct to Government House on the Mount of Olives. On a spur of the Mount...
...Hotels" that you speak of the "Admiral Beatty Hotel" being erected in St. Johns, Nova Scotia. There is no St. Johns in Nova Scotia. St. Johns is in Newfoundland. The Admiral Beatty Hotel is being erected not in Nova Scotia, but in St. John, New Brunswick, the well-known seaport, and one of the oldest cities in the Dominion...
...Tripoli, work has been going forward in uncovering the city of Leptis Magna, birthplace of the Emperor Septimius Severus. The city, 100 miles east of Tripoli, and about five miles from the sea at the present time, was formerly a seaport as the discovery of elaborate wharves proves. It was almost two miles square and the ruins are now buried in from 10 to 50 ft. of sand. A great palace, several statues and baths have been uncovered, and a series of columns nine metres high...
This feat, magnificent as it appears, was not difficult of accomplishment. Colombia has few cities of any commercial consequence: Barranquilla with its seaport at Puerto Colombia; Bu- caramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cucuta, Manizales, Medellin, Buenaventura...