ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Another Victim."-As you do not mention the hotel, or where the cab was called from we cannot say whether the oharge was legitimate. For cars specially ordered, the minimum fare is ss; in other cases is per mile per passenger, with minimum of 2s for single passenger.
H.R.B. —Torpedo-nets are iheffectiTe for protecting moving ships against submarine torpedoes, not because the drag of them prevents speed, but because even at a low speed they themselves drag to the surface of the water and there are great practical difficulties in holding them down Even if they could be held down, modem torpedoes have a certain amount of power to force their way through a net. (2) The Minister of Munitions. 'Returned Soldier" and "W.A.J."—Such a general condemnation of the other sex based on isolated instances of discourtesy is hardly fair. *
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 115, 12 November 1917, Page 6
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