INTERESTING ITEMS.
In the fighting towards Damascus, one section of Arabs marched seventy miles in twenty-four hours, fighting part of the way. Hand; grenades were produced in the United States at the rate of 2,000,000 a month.
Every six minutes a merchant vessel arrives and another departs from American ports. New Zealand sent 110,000 men to the war out of a population of fewer than 1,200,000. It has been discovered that by cutting frozen sheep and telescoping them a saving of 35 per,cent, can be made in shipment and storage space. It is claimed that twenty sheep are required to provide sufficient wool to keep one soldier clothed.
The Grand Fleet and the escort services consume 7.000,000 tons of coal a year.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2649, 24 November 1919, Page 7
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122INTERESTING ITEMS. Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2649, 24 November 1919, Page 7
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