; Germany claims to possess more than twenty-one million head of cattle and seventeen million pigs. Elephants have only eight teeth. All young elephants' teeth fall out when the animal is about fourteen; T ears cid, and a now set grows. Summer time-has now been introduced in Russia.' It is calculated that it will mean in Petrograd alone a monthly saving of 800,000 tons of cool. The Austrian Emperor is said to have transferred all his money. Court jewellory, and investment certificates from tho Austrian to the Swiss banks. Six whales were forced into shallow water when the Awa district of Japan was inundated 'by the sea during the recent severe storm. The people in the neighbourhood swarmed to tho spot and soon captured the monsters. All tho whales measured more than twenty feet !in length.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10027, 19 July 1918, Page 2
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