About 40 young men armed with guna looted the -whole of the bazaar, including the post office, of the town of Mianickgunge. in Eastern Bengal. After cutting the telegraph wires and wounding the post master they escaped with immense booty. Work was commenced last month upon. the new Dreadnought which Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co. (Limited) are to build for the Chilian Government. The battleship will cost, a£>S>iroximately, £2:500,000. .- ■
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Otago Witness, Issue 3006, 25 October 1911, Page 65
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