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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12493, 20 March 1909, Page 4

.The idea of garden cities is being taken up in France, and a Bill has been' introduced providing that any town with more than 10,000 inhabitants should be endowed with public gardens, parks, and other open space's : for health and recreation. The group of Cincinnati men who for some time have _ been operating a submarine . coal mine in Mabou, Gape .Breton, have sustained a loss aggregating at least £200,000, by reason' of : the sea breaking and flooding the mine." ' -■/'■' Frederick 11. of Prussia, who was a-i .arderit supporter of all industrial enterprises, spent enormous sums of public, money in. bringing. land under cultivation.: Among his. other works was that of draining three great marshes, -which altogether covered 44,700 acres. ■". On these he settled 2581 families, consisting of 11,500 persons