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New York, October 10
Reports from Denver state that, with the telegraph and telephone service crippled, and 300 miles of railroad out of commission, only meagre reports are received from the floodswept. districts of South-Western Colorado; and North-Western Mexico. There are rumours of heavy loss of life, but no verified list is available. Ottawa, October 10. The Winnipeg boilermakers and the machinists of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway struck to-day; 350 men are affected. Negotiations for a settlement. have been pending, but have not matured. Tiic men seek a ninehc ur day and increased pay. The Hague, Ocober 10. The engineers on forty trawlers have struck for increased wages. St. Petersburg, October 10.
Ten lighters, laden with grain, and fifteen with coal and cotton, were Pfw’ously damaged or sunk during a gale.
Tokio, October 10. An extraordinary credit, totalling forty-seven years, will be asked for next session for the augmentation of the fleet, which it is expected will include two super-Dreadnoughts annually t making twenty-two of these to be laid down or completed by 1919.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 48, 11 October 1911, Page 6
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