Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts are that, on the morning of the day in question, an unknown caddy handed to Mr. Wm. Serrick a note written on one of our sending newspaper special blanks. This note read: "Ma died at eight o'clock this morning. Line." Line is the pet name of Lincoln Serrick, a younger brother of the addressee...
...Unknown to anyone a shell with a misprimed fuse was inserted into one of the guns. As the unfortunate gunner pulled his lanyard not only the propelling charge but the high explosive shell charge detonated. The gun burst, killing seven men and wounding eleven others, all skilled in the handling of shells and explosives...
Last week, some London school children, desiring to thank H. R. H. The Prince of Wales for a courtesy, addressed a letter to him care of H. M. S. Repulse. "Address, unknown" replied His Majesty's Postoffice...
...polyandrian crew boarded the S.S. Kwanchung, seized it before it left Canton. At a prearranged point, they clambered to the bridge, poured fatal shot into four seamen. Their confederates came alongside, and presently the whole bottom including the Chinese Captain, two Chinese Christian preachers, 50 passengers, steamed to an unknown piratical cove. The Queen demands $120,000 ransom...
...make French and Spanish success easier. It was even hinted that the Mannesmanns had been in some way connected with the mysterious support of Abd-el-Krim with money and arms. Indian and Egyptian Moslems are supposed to have contributed and there was one report that a submarine of unknown nationality delivered 28,000,000 pesetas to Abd-el-Krim...