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a DECEMBER 25, 1914

The = Word’ $s ‘Doings i in Brief

. News’ Notes. from, Many Sources,

- Senator Robert J aftr vay is dead
“ ‘at Toronto. |.

: Great Britain ‘has recognized
the’ ‘French. Protectorate over
‘Morocco, ws ; ty

. Moore's’ wharf, | “at “Skagway,
was destroyed by fire, ‘The Toss
was $210,000, :

Out of 2, 500 undergraduates at
‘Cambridge university, 2, 600 have
enlisted ‘for the war.

American Methodists: plan to}:
‘yaise ‘a fund of $5, 000, 000 for

’ Canada has sent a million dole
lars’ worth of goods for the re-
‘lief of distressed Belgians, ,

eee

The Scottish football assccia-
tion. hag decided to abandon. its
football cup ties this season,

Farm crops in the United States
‘this year are estimated to. be
worth nearly five ‘billion, dollars.

. Seven were killed and éight i in-

“ured i in a. natural gas explosion

a,

he

ee

‘in an apartment house at Cleve-
~Tand, 0..

" British Columbia fisheries dar: |.
ing the last fiscal year produced
$18, 900,000, out of a total of $33, -
000, 000 for Canada.

oar ‘scfentific party for. explora-
tion service in South Polar regions
““has embarked in the Aurora, at
- Sydney, N. 8: Ww. oo

- Danish explorers, backeid by a
“nillionaite of that country, will
try to reach the North Pole, tak.
tg two. yeara for the trip. - ;

Sele Crews of Turkish warships at
* donktantinogte ‘are reported “to,

“have mautinied against their Ger-

"man ‘officers, who are accused ‘of

brutality,

ot Russian steamship company
“announees the forthcoming estab-
“lishment of a line of steamships
to: operate hetween Vladivostok
ind, New York...

* he German’ government; has
‘fixed the price which. may, be
~ paid, for Potatoes, . and. has. order-
xed, the. conservation: of supplies
-of wheat and fiour,

[ One hundred arid one vessels,
Jof ah aggregate tonnage ‘of .361,-

o 000,: have. changed from foreign |:
~ “to: American registry since ‘the
7 hegiming of the war. 7

The Gaekwar of Baroda, an
‘sian prince, has purchased. the

“Ge P R. liner Enipress ‘of ‘Inidia,
/ ‘for ‘use as a: hospital: ship’ for}:

a Indian troops engaged in, the war,

© Lloyd George predicts a ‘five

: year period of atimulated industry
a, Amniddiately’ after. the wav to’ be
om followed. by:a" serio

_ | suspended payment, Tts*- liabil-

“1514,

us condition |

‘umbia’ ‘government "200, 000, 000
feet of timber, The provinee
will receive $88, 000i in alumpage
and rentals of $2000 3 a yer, -

“The Danish motor ship Malak-/

ka is hard aground on the rocky
beach of : Bird. Rock, Natividad
Island...
the Jong. boat, who attempted to}
row to" St... Quentin, in Lower |’
California, ‘are believed to have|

“Tbeen lost. .. .

~-Tt is reported on good authority
that-the London stock exchange

ue | will reopen on Jan. 4,: under!

government ‘restrictions which
will make it diffteult for Germany
to gain any advantage through
the operation of the exchange,

The Bank. of. Vancouver has

ities aggregate slightly more than
$700,000, and its assets are over
8 million. Notes in circulation
are guaranteed, and it is expected

that all-depositors will be paid in|

full.” If the Lank does not resume
payment in ninety days,: its char-
ter will lapse and liquidation will
ensue, i ag hae

Componition « of. Germany

The area of the German Em-
pire is £08,780 square miles; its
population in 1 1910. was 64,925,-

993, - Tt: ‘consists cof: the following
states: .

Prussia, - a. “kingdom, Area, |
‘{184, 558 aquare miles ; population
40,165,219, -Pruasia i is divided in-
to thirteen provinces, namely, be-
ginning on the east: East Prus-

“lata, Went "Prussia, Posen and

Silesia, constituting “the” area
bordering on Russia; Pomerania,

Mecklenberg and Schleawig-Hol-

stein, which with East and: West
Prussia form the northern tier of
provinces; Hariover, which bord-
era on tha North Sea; Westphalia
and Rhenish Prussia, which bord-
er on. the’ Netherlands ahd Bel-
gium; , Hesge-Nagsay, Saxony and
Bradenburg, which are in the
interior; Berlin and Hohenzollern
are: ‘small: areas having. indepen-
dent’ I6eal administrations.

Bavaria, . a _kingdom,. 29, 286

square miles; population 6,88; »|.

291. - .
Saxony, a a kingdom), 6,856 square
miles; population 4,806,661, -

Wurtemberg, ‘akingdom; 7,534 °

square miles; Poptlation 2,437,
Baden, a grand duchy 5,888

aquare miles; Population 2 148, *
000.

051...

Meckienburg-Schwerin, a grand
duchy; 5,185 square malless popu- .
lation 689, 958,
“ Meoklenbata-Stralite, '’ S grand
=" tduehy's. 1, 130 ‘bquake ti Tailess Popit~ "

: lation 106, 142, we ;

The, mate -and crew. of |":

‘bality; $20 square milags . popiila-

Population 100, 702.

{square miles ; population 61, 707.

when the reference is to that

Hesse, a “grand duchy; 2, 966
square maileé ; Population 1, 282, =|. J

Sake: Weinier. Bi stitch, a: ‘grand
duchy; 1,897 square ‘miles; popu.
lation 4473149, oe

Avhalt,’.a duchy ; ‘906 ‘square
miles; population 881, 128, 0°

‘Brunswick, a. _ duchy +. + 1,418
square miles; population 464, 175.

.; Saxe-Altenburg, a duchy ;. 512
square ‘wiles; population 216, 000,

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a duchy:
763 Square miles ; ;. ‘Population
257, 17." ;

square miles ; population 278, 798.
- Lippe, a prineipality: ‘470 square
miles; population 160,937,”
Reusg (younger line), a prinei-

tion 152,762,
Schaumberg-Lippe, .a princi-
pality; 180 Square miles; popula-
tion 46,626. Ce
Schwarsbure - Rudolstadt, «a
| principality + > 863 square ‘miles;

Waldeck, a principality ; 438

Reichsland, formerly | Algace-
Lorraine; 14,522 square miles ; :
population: 1,874,014,

. Included in the Empire are the
Hanse Towns, namely Lubeck, ;
Bremen and Hamburg. | These
towns have local self-government
and territorial Sovereignity, - oo

It follows from what has been
said ahove that the term Germany
must be employed when the whole|
Empire’ is meant, and “Prussia

kingdom only, :

Over 60,000 “newspapers. are
now appearing at daily or week-'

ly intervals i in the various: quar-
tera of the lobe, Of: these

considerably. over one-half ‘are.
printed in the’ Briglish language,

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