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VOL. XT, KO. 30. PAIBPOBT, N. Y., THURSDAY, J U L Y 24, 1913. $1.00 P E R YEAR ;• ' r < V<7!

MaximumWeigfitto Be Increased

to Twenty Pounds. . afjfsg^^tigsaiagw

Rates W i l l Be Lower—Mater ia l Re­

duction In First and Second Zones

Promised by Postmaster. Burleson.

' W i l l Become Effective on Aug. 15.

Other~ltehi8".~'~ ~ ~

Ians—U msion; . i m p r o v e ment and reduction in rates of the

5 ^ a i - c e l ^ O B t - i ^ w 0 r l e ^ : ; ; a M ^ u W e l ^ l ^ , week by Postmaster (General Burle­

son. The changes, which are to be­ll iconrei ,

ncrease from 11 pounds to 20 pound3

a material reduction in the postage ra tes in the^ first and second zones^

JULIAN H A W T H O R N E T

He Will Walk to New York From Atlanta, Ga.,

_Whfin Freed From Prisortr

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gs=^Md^he^=^aHaonnierit~Dr'4tlie~ pareeT post map as a means of computing rates and the substitution for it of a rate chart individualized to every postoffice in the United States. The plans contemplate the purchase* of a large number of automobiles to be used exclusively for the delivery of parcel post matter.

While for the present, the maxi­mum weight limit of 20 pouncte and the reduction in rates will apply only to the first and second zones, from any given postoffice — a distance of

——about"150"raile^=the~chaMesn3lrect^ _- ed constitute the f i r s t ' l o n g step -,,~lffisy^j:d^^L_unlv£rsal.^extensioa.. o i - t h e .

system and a general reduction in

Fifty Girls May Have -Perisiiec

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u'feTTTefore 3 o'clock yesterday "after noon the clang of the automatic fire

I alarm gong stopped the ;.busy -flngere

the .rates ,of _postaga2on. parce l^npt^ ter.

ONE DEAD IN WRECK

Cars

~-Juliair~Hawthonre~aiYnounces tliaX he tends to'walk from Atlanta-to New "York when released from the fed*eral penlten-

}-=tiary—in-^A.tlantar~Oarr-the"='last-'week=iff July. He says he has been informed from

JWashingtonUhat^ his , appUcatipn-for—pa-

Score Injured When Trolley Collide Near Rochester.

Edward S. Ward of Rochester, - t reasurer of the Ward's Natural Sci­

ence establishment, was killed, and 15 or 20 persons were injured late last Saturday afternoon in a wreck on the Rochester & Eastern line of the New York State Railways com­pany about five miles west'of Victor.

. . . A passenger-car, carrying Rochest­er people to Canandaigua lake for the week-end, ran head-on into a combi­nation freight and baggage car. The persons moBt seriously hur t were in the front part of the„passengerLCoaclv-which was demolished. Most of the injured were taken to the.._ Canan­daigua hospital.

There were 27 persons in the pas-•-r senger^arr^=MrrWaTdrsarwith~TTaWy~ —Ament^rf^Ws-TJttyr-^BnMfrmw^n^ir

danger and jumped into' the aisle. Air. Ward was crushed to death in his seat. Ament is internally injured and may die. The injured not from Rochester are:

William Cone, Canandaigua, cut and bruised; Thomas A. Watkins, Canan­daigua, right leg broken; Angelo Ri-cardo, Victor, abdomen badly injured, probably will die.

role will'be grahfedr "Although Hawthorne Is sixty-seven years old and white haired, he Is in good physical trim, and he de­clares he looks forward to the thousand mile tramp with -pleasure. Dr. W. P. Morton of New York, convicted with Hawthorne, will be released at the same time as the novelist.

Of the 125 Girls Employed by Bing

hamton Clothing Company Only 17

Have Been Accounted For as^Un

In jured.—.Terr ib le Scenes Enactec

" l r T Girls' Stampede % For , Safety

From Burning Building.

Binghamton, July 23. - A . j f e w miQ:

scapes. A tower of flame leaped froavthe elevator shaft and billowed ovor the inflammable stuff by the machines.

GIRLS LEAP TO DEATH

rMany-.Perlsh^ln=44eadtong^R«sn^P0vtfrf the Stairway.

Scores died before they could reach stairway or windows. .Their dresses caught from the burning waste. They dropped and were ashes before the building fell. A few, less, than a doz-en. ran to the windows and leaped to

streets through waves of flames. Starry

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|^ls^Bdicwi;uBlu>d^_eadlongod^^ tor, is taken to Sing Sing to serve appearance in the borough, and on

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_&aejyn.es_oL,XhBJ.Binghamton^ Cloth-:

BIG KANSAS WHEATYIELD

Farmers Scorn Expert Aid. ~~The farmers of Kosciusko county, Ind., and that vicinity believe they know more about tilling the soil than any graduate from an agricultural school, and because of this belief have Influenced the county council to re­fuse to make an appropriation for the payment of a county agent or agricult­ural expert.

With the announcement of the vote of the council a statement was given out which the ifea of a boy just oui of college teaching their fathers how to raise blooded stock and raising bumper crops was called ridiculous. The vote of the council was five to one against the vote. ^

One Farmer Received $26 an Acre For Crop. '

Emil Overbeck, a farmer, living six miles southeast of Paola, Kan., recently delivered his wheat crop from sixty - acres and received $1,-544 for it, an average of nearly $26 an acre. The average yield was 35 bushels to the acre. The field is bot­tom • land.-1 On , the upland chinch

-bugs-out down-the-y-ield to 15 bushels or less, and some wheat was too poor to cut. •...-—- _.=—

* Some exceptional wheat yields are reported from different parts^ of Re­public county, Kan. ~ The bel t so far comes trom Taimo, wliere G. R. Lowell duplicated his last year's rec­ord by producing 50 busrels to the acre. Earnest Woods, near Repub­lic, comes second, with 41* bushels to the acre; Henry Pachta of Belleville raised 35 bushels to the acre, Ben Carson, 33 bushels and Norris broth-.ersj_2p_bushe.ls :

ing company. They were not startled or alarmed.

^^sA^i^^n^^i^oTowdeU^fourm^flooF —the top — called laughingly to 8 friend across the room: "It's only another one of those old fire drills. I'm not going down into the street dressed as I am and make a show ol myself."

The girls, most of them, - settled back for-work. Two minutes later they were dying miserably in flames and smoke, or crushing each dthei in hopeless attemtps to escape dowr a single stairway and the two narrow fire ladders. * In 18-minutes thej four-story— factory- of^---approvedI factory construction" was a mass of ashes and embers—walls, roof and supports

"fallen In. ' ,• • ^ At...Jeas.L3.0_-oL.the. girls-,are,,dead, their bodies consumed or charred" In" the smoking debris of the factory. At least fifty more are injured, many fatally.

Of the 125 girls on the payroll only 17 have been accounted for as uninjured. Twenty-two are in the hos­pitals. Eight are being cared for- In in private homes. Possibly 20 or 25 who survived the dreadful rush oi flames and smoke or who fought their way to the streets over the bodies ol their work mates fled away to their homes before firemen or police could learn their identity. So far though it is only guess work to attempt to say how many actually got out of the fire alive and unhurt.

President Freeman of the Overall. Manufacturing company and his book­keeper insist that there were less" than 125 girls In the factory, since

~some~ w e r e o n vacation. Fire Chief Hoag says that there were 150 girls

^closely, packed^ on=th_e^four-floors.-So -that~the-estimate-of-fiftv-dead is-as

the utah-way gave up their lives be­fore they had made a dozen steps. It

,}las ^!* sg_ ho r r ijjl y^ quickj s o b r e a t h - ^j^g^az-confeBBion.-

not have survived, much less young om^n-wtTlrTrrr^uick-grip on -nm-ves-

with little physical strength to nght and scrnmhleu

CORSETS AS COLLATERAL

-UffeTf-DeTfTcK at Woman's Funeral. A derrick which had been rigged

up by Andrew Anderson, a con­t r a c t o r of Perth Amboy, and UBed for pianos,, had to be employed in lower­ing the body of Mrs. Beza Michanaki from the third-story window or her home. Mrs. Michanaki, wife of An­drew MichanskI, a factory foreman, weighed more than 500 pounds.

The casket, which was made to . order, was 6 feet 3 inches long, 39 Inches "wide and 26 Inches deep. The

"combined welglitof"cbTpse'arTd"casket was 925 pounds. Ten pallbearers carried the coffin into the churin.

Rates on Wheat Unreasonable.' The Interstate commerce commls-

lion held Monday at Washington that all railroad freight on wheat from Minneapolis to New York city, via Chicago and Lockport, N. Y-., was un­reasonable, to the extent that it ex­ceeded' the ra te 'contemporaneously In effect^ oft flouiV725 cents a hundred pounds. The railroads will be re­quired by Oct. I to so adjust- their tariffs as to make the commission's

_conclusIona_effective.!_— —

Penh Yan Mil l Destroyed* ; g - t ^ t n d r e ^ 4 H s 6 i & ^ . ' "at.••Ponn" Yan, N r Y.,' burned Satur­

day "night, causing *an estimated loss of $60,000, The mill was a pioneer

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Burlington Bank Lends $2 to Stranded Philadelphia Girl .

In the steel vault of the Mechanics' National bank of Burlington, N. J., reposes an oblong package tied with pink_baby ribbons. The parcel, the center of much giggling intereit among bank clerks, contains the-|" queerest collateral ever deposited with a New Jersey banking inst i tu­tion as security on a loan. Within the folds of paper and ribbons is a pair of corsets, avowed market value $6.25, OB which a young woman, lacking ra i road fare to Philadelphia, in her extremity borrowed from the bank the sum of $2.

•The young woman, slightly known at— the^bank—is-said—to—have—found herself stranded here without funds to return to her home, as the result of extra, purchases of lingerie in New York.

Fat Pig Caused Railroad Wreck. A three-huhdred-pound pig last week

caused the wreck of a freight train on the Chester Valley railroad at Cedar Hollow station, Pa. Grant Shaffer of Bridgeport, the conduct? or of the train, was oh the first of eight cars being_sjdetracked at..Cedar Hollow. The pig, from a nearby farm, walked across the tracks in front of the cars.

The eight car left the track, three going over the embarkmenti Shaffer rolled " ^wn .the embankment ag: Inst a cherry t ree and was.Injured. Tho pig was cut to pieces.

> • . Mellen Quits New Haven Road. Charles Sanger Mellen last week

eliminated himself entirely from railroading ~in "New England by re­signing the . presidency of tho New York, New Haven & Hartford and its subsidiaries. The date of his retire­ment is left to the directors, but Mr. Mellen-says-it~mnst-nortJQTlater"thafi Oct. 1st. / ' x

They that were saved unhurt or with comparatively slight injuries were the ones who had been lucscy enough to be employed on the lower floors, the first or second. At the first alarm they did not delay because they heard and smelled the blaze.They were stirred from their* machines by the screams of Mrs. Reed B. free­man, the wife of the president of the clothing company. So that-thev. had time and strength to get out before the overwhelming sweep of fire and smok,e conquered elevator, stairway and fire escapes. - ; -

The greatest loss of life took place on - t he - topmost— floors;—-the—fourth, wliere fifty girls sat knee to knee 'driving the machines that "cut ~ a"nd sewed patterns for men's overalls For them there was not a ghost of a chanCe. Halted by the complaint of the girl "who did not wan t to-s ip pear on the street just as she - was ' 'Vhir t ' little ^vanity cost her life) they were walled by\fire when they finally real=-ized that the alarm was in deadly earnest The loss of life on the third floor was appalling for much the same reason. Few girls escaped trom eith­er work room to tell of what preced­ed the desperate struggle for air and life.

The cause of the fire has not yet been learned. It originated under a stairway in the basement, found ricn food, spurted to the first or office

**• floor and them roared aloft. Cause -of—flre; responsibility for the condi­tions and all of the necessary ex­planations that must be made after such a horro" (although as usual, majde too latej_^wili^be _Jn_vgstjgate4 by" Coroner Wilson,. District Attorney

Happenings From All Parts of the

Globe Put Into Shape For Easy

Reading — What All the World Is

Ta lk ing About—Cream of the News

Culled From Long Dispatches.

-Y+turedayi

eight years for bribery without mak-

WOMAN. ESCAPES.SENIENCE-

Hughesville "Poisoned Pen" Letter- — . /wr i ter Let Off With Warning.

, Williamspoft, Fa., July 2 3 . - - ' T f l \ never write any more letters, judge," Bobbed^'Miss^^ilena^SwartB^of^Hughes^* ville, when she was called before Judge Whitehead charged w*ita boing the author of "poisoned pen" letters received by a number of prominent Hughesville people. Several ._weeks_ ago the young woman entered a plea of nolo contendre, and- oh her agree­ment to quit letter wrting the charge against her was not pushed.

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complaint of citizens Miss Swartz | .was •brought—into- court accompanied ^

by her two brothers; After-ihform»^

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Ing her that under"the -fn^fclinenl to which she had pleaded he could send her~fo~ priso"n~foT four-yeaTsr-iJudge--Whitehftfld suBpendecL., setttenceyr^Qnc condition that she refrain from com­mitting the offense again.

Crispell's death in Harvey's lake, Pennsylvaniay-finds-persons -who-de­clare she and Herbert Johns said th^yHrM^eeri-marrltFd:"" -"" • • • - ' =

President, after signing iS'ewlands bill under which railroads and men will a4*bitrate differences, gives Mrs. J. Borden Harriman credit for bring­ing about contorence which resulted in agreement.

Friday. ""J" - ' Dr. L. S. Muler, Brazilian minister,

Btarts for home with a tow of gifts. Professor Reinsch, of University of

Wisconsinr is considered for post of minister torOhina.

Additional details of Bulgarian atrocities continue to be outlined in war dispatches:

After—hearrng-writ~ of~ham?ar~c*or-* Afee said, pus^ c H^r roa j i ^ohn , 8^s r / se i free - a ^ - I Q O " p e r ^ c e i i t ^ o m o r r o w - ^ n f e i t ^ t h

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HIGHER WAGE NO SAFEGUARD

Morality of Women Not Dependent on Salary, Minister Asserts.

Chicago, July 23, — The Rev. Wil­liam MacAfee, district superintendent of the Rock River conference, de­clared in an address that increased wages would not be a panacea for the • moral lapses of working women.. _ _ „

tf "Some persons say our 'working women go down to lives of shame be­cause of insufficient wages,--Dr. Mc-._

but Tninreinnr"ThTr wages™**

low as can reasonably be made. When the story is told, and the lists are checked up, no one will be surprised if the death roll runs to 65 or 70.

MANY FATALLY BURNED

Crowds About Hospitals Saddened by Pitiful Cries of Injured Girls.

Three hospitals, the City, the Ter­race and the Moore-Overton, are car­ing for the injured, some of whom are so dreadfully burned that they cannot possibly live. Others, whose lives. are hoped for are in frightful agony. Around the hospitals great crowd?, (thousands have come.here from near­by cities) are saddened by the moan? and pitiful cries of the_jnjured girls. Firemen, police and volunteers are digging in the smoking debris of the factory and are taking out not bodies, but pleces-of bodies. ._Of the girls that escaped death or injury, several are near insanity.

Words can do little more than give a dim idea of the shocking rate of those that perished. Not even the Triangle Shirt Waist company fire In New York city two years__flgo-JasL

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The .estimatedf number of acres ol corn planted In, Iowa this year is

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1912, according" to* a^special report.

March equally the disaster of yester day in this city. Here in a great build ing of brick and wood where tin floors were piled inches deep with oil soaked rags and waste, where there waB only one stairway and two fire es­capes, 125 girls whose average age was less than 20 had less than IS minutes to save their lives.

Circumstances and bad fortmu made their position hopeless. There seemed to Have been no man quick witted or courageous enough to give instant warning of their awful danger so that three or four priceless minute? were wasted in their hesitation to ap pear on the street In their soiled and worn working clothes.

But the worst of It was that the fire started in the basement, fed on rag? ind paper and pitchy timber, mush roomed and shot upward through every vent—elevator shaft, stairway and airsliafts. So that when the girls actually realized that the automatic alarm was signalling real danger and not merely calling for the formal drill that was meant to show the girls how to get out quickly and safely, they

-were-glrdlfid-wlth-flrer Rushing flames met them at the

. 8JafcKay:,_FlanLes., curled_f rpm jjyery

H. " I suffered habitual ly from consti-pation, Doa^'s Regnjots relieved and

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Wilkes-Barre and mystery of death of* Aljce Crispell is unsolved.

Declaring that the railroads-/ too. have grievances to be submitted to arbitration, conference committee of Eastern railroads submits specifica­tions to organiaztions of conductors and trainmen, who declare that prob­ably there will be a strike on the Erie.

N. J., poison

Meagher and the fire commissioner. No arrests have been been made yet.

SING SING HAS BIG FIRE

Saturday. Raymond^ Unger, Newark,

silversmith, ends life with after wife and child leave him.

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A cable dispatch from Salonica says Greek and Servian premiers have con­ference at Uskub on peace with Bul:

garia. - ( New York womaji's marriage is an­

nul 1 edypyo years after her death "and" her estate gives to brother instead of husband. \ ^

Charging he beat her because he (was angered^, £.t _cl.ergyman_'sL„_call. _w.ealthy._N.ew_York. .w.oman_has_hus-_ band arrested.

"Prominent men of other South American countries will follow exam­ple of Dr. Mull^r and make trips to United States.

Wardn Clancy Placs Damage at About $150,000.

Ossining, X. Y., July 23.—Three shops of Sing Sing prison burned to the ground with a loss that Warden James M. Clancy puts at §150,000. The fire was fought mainly by convicts who showed great b r a ^ r y .

I t destroyed the lumber storage, "tire- fine cart and wagon plant ana the mat shop, leaped the prison wall and licked up the ice house, burned down a wooden gate in the wall and caused 1,200 men locked in their CGHS to raise an uproar that could oe h^ard for miles.

The men locked up were not i danger at any time. The fire was pu out befort it reached the foundry and the knitting shops. \

No one knows how the blaze start­ed. There was first noticed in the room of the mat shop where rope is braided. A convict saw a flicker of light along the floor. He gave the alarm and with the others in tne shop was marched out and across the yard to the cell block.

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Monday. Woman enters a candy store In

New York and throws acid over a couple seated at table.

Convict escapes from Sing Sing in suit, stolen from prison tailor shop and may be* posing as a clergyman.

New York" policemen declare move­ment to make London police clean shaven* is following in New York's footsteps.

Chinese province of^Kwangtung se-ced^f and appoints goveYnoV general to 'ead troops against the forces of President Yuan Shih Kai.

Seriorisness of Mexican problem is added to by inability of President Wilson to obtain reliable reports of true conditions in Southern republic.

Widow of Francisco I. Madero, in an^ exclusive interview with a New York-^reportaA says the late pres r dent of^lexfco* was shot to death in his bed in the palace.

MAILS STONE TO JUDGE

Person Complaining of Bad Roada

Sends Sample Obstruction. " Norristown, Pa., Ju/y 23. — There were visions of infernal machines around the courthouse when Librari­an Jones received by parcels post a heavy package addressed to Judge Swartz.

" I t was carefully opened and found to contain a -stone weighing 7% pounds, accompanied by a letter which said that the stone had been found In the middle of One of the roads In the county, the condition of which road had been pointed to the supervisors of the township without r e su l t The court was asked to have the road made less dangerous to lo travel by clearing it of the stones.

Rooster Causes Lockjaw. Lancaster, Pa., July 23.—Mrs. John

Dorwart was taken to the General hospital for treatment for lockjaw. It do^el?.Fpd4^ by a foo8lor a short time ago7

Spider's Bite Fatal. JUacaakr, Pa., Jujy 23, — Wllliatr

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im hearts of these young persons are set on 'finery theaters, late suppers and • automobiles, the increase of wages will avail nothing. Wealth never has and never will give Immunity from temptation."

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.WOMAN BATTLES MUTINEERS

Saves Boails_Mate When 26 Chinese

. -^Rise In Revolt. New Orleans, July 23.—Mutiny ot

26 Chinese on the steamship Comus arriving from New York, resulted in a panic among the passengers,, the . probable fatal shooting of one of the mutineers, the wounding of three oth­ers an'd slight injuries to First Ofil-er M. L. Proctor.

Proctor owes his life to the-haavery-of Mrs. Florence Shaw, a stewardess. Six of the mutineers rushed him to the rail. Then Mrs. Shaw appeared and battled her way among the Chi-nese, prevent!ng t1Etem~from throwing^

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Tuesday.

GIRL BURGLAR UNDER BED

Tables Turned In Legendary Old Maid's Scare.

New York, July 23. — Reversal ol the well-nigh sacred, legendary scare story—that of an old maid finding a man under the bed—occurred here to­day.

Myer Kesch of 153 Rivingttm s t ree t was horrified to find a dainty little boot protruding from beneath his bed The police believe they- have cap tured Hattie Linke. a clever burglar, who was trapped in Kersch's apart­ment.

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BANKER'S DAUGHTER IN JAIL

One-Time Society Girl of Alabama Said to Have Aided Burglar Husband.

Mobile, Ala.. July 23.—Mrs. xMildora Newton, daughter of S. H. McMaster, former president of a Mobile bank, is inJa i l here charged with being an ac­cessory-to the burglaries committed by her husband, Louis Kitler, alias Newton. It is said that the young

Five persons are drowned on Sun­day when bathing in New York waters. *

Land speculators delay building of great fort at mouth jaf7 Chesapeake bay by Mgh pr ice^fars i te .

Chinese federal croons urfder Gen­eral 'Chong-Sun defeat Southern reb­els and revolutionary leader is killed.

Toronto pastor preaching in New York declares New York society^ would spiirn Christ if He returned to earth.

"A business man may be a satis­factory husband, although certainly uninteresting," says Mrs. Preston of Baltimore. « ^-^* fc^^—*».

Political situation at Albany is un­precedented in annals of state and not even veteran' /rnembers of legis­lature will predict outcome.

Wednesday. .Blunder in* specifications for state

road causes scandal at Carthage. N. Y. July trade in New York shops

shows'- great gain over preceding years.

Body.of a gir l .wjth.a buljet./wound tover her heart te found among trees a t Fbrt Lqe, N. J : —

wife,( dressed as a man, aided her husband. The latter has confessed to 17 burglaries in and about Birming­ham.

As a girl Mrs. Newton was a mem­ber of Mobile's most exclusive society.'

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MAY DIE OF BUG'S BITE

Man Battles Half Hour on Top of Train Wi th Strange Assailant:—r-

Pittsburg, July 23.—While at work on top of a freight train in the Pit-cairn yards of the Pennsylvania railroad, Braden C. Oms battled for a half hour with a bug as "large as a pigeon," which bit him several times on the left arm and side. ^

Orms' arms and left side are ter­ribly swollen, and physicians are puz­zled. He. suffers agony and Is kept under opiates. He may die.

Women In Post Holes. After placinlg^umbrellas over their

heads for shade and planting four American flags about them for pro­tection, Mrs. Phillip'Llvinson oMIar-rlsburg, Pa,, arid her 16-year-old daughter got Into holea^hlchiv^fcr i iv

htended for telegraph poles, and pre^-||yented>M>fil.y^erectlon.r^^py^r^aUp'=d

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Greek troops*ore closlhg in on Kres-

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H ^ ^ r g f l ? a ^ T n i F | ^ r a a T u ^ ot the River Struma: