Fearing the doctors would kill the patients, natives of South Rhodesia have been convealing smallpox cases. Brazil expects to grow more cotton per acre this year than ever before because of more rigorous seed selection. Seventy feet beneath the busy Polsdammerstrasse men working on Berlin's new underground railway found the bones of a mammoth believed to have lived 35,000 years ago. The port of Bankok, Slam is to be modernised and the approaches dredged so that ocean-going ships may discharge and take on cargoes in the city instead of several miles away, as at present.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 5 May 1938, Page 13
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