Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This little State lies between the Swiss Cantons of St. Gallen an Graubiinden and the Austrian province of Voralberg. Until after the War the State was in the Austrian Customs Union, but in 1921 it joined the Swiss Customs Union and it is Switzerland who administers the telegraph, postage and coinage systems. According to the Constitution, granted in October, 1921, Liechtenstein is a limited monarchy...
...area of the quake, 30 lives were lost. Many hundreds of dwellings collapsed, chiefly those that were damaged in September or temporary habitations. Railways, roads, telephone and telegraph were put out of action in many places. Several fires broke out, but were soon extinguished. Water works and mains in Yokohama and Tokyo were broken, flooding streets and houses. Some piers were wrecked at Yokohama, but the damage to shipping was reported to have been negligible...
...above telegram was received late last night by the CRIMSON and confirmed by the Postal telegraph...
Palestine. Traces of the ancient city and citadel of David on Mount Ophel, near Jerusalem, were discovered by the joint expedition of the London Daily Telegraph and the Palestine Exploration Fund, under Prof. R. A. S. Macalister. The remains of a Jebusite wall and tower they found are believed to be the mysterious "Millo" mentioned in II Samuel, V, 9, "And David built round about from Millo and inward." The evidence appears to show that "Millo" was a tower or fort which existed even before the Hebrew conquest...
...Government employees in the Post and Telegraph Offices, having been refused increases in salaries and Christmas bonuses amounting to about 11,000,000,000 kronen, went on strike...