ALL RECORDS BROKEN.
Once more the Lusitania has eclipsed all previous Transatlantic records .by making tho westward passage in the' unparalleled time of four days fifteen hours (says the London "Daily Mail." ~ , ~ The Cunard Company announco that tho time of tho voyago from Queenstown to Sandy Hook was i days 15 hours (3h. 40mm. less than the Lusitania's previous best), and the average, speed throughout 25.23 knots. This beats even the Indomitable's average of 25.13 knots from land to land on her record homeward voyago with tho Prince ol Wales from Quebec. The details of the Lusitania's remarkable voyage are as follow: To noon Sunday, 21 knots. . . , - To noon Monday, 650 knots. To noon Tuesday, 631 knots. To noon Wednesday. 623 knots. To noon Thursday, 610 knots. ■ To 9.30 a.m. Friday, 216 knots.- • The Lusitania has, as these figures show, proved herself once more the fastest liner- in the world. ■ • __
No British literary critic, from the sixteenth ocnt-ury to tho twentieth, can be credited with any important contribution to tho theory of criticism.—"Fcium," Now York. i'
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 323, 9 October 1908, Page 8
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176ALL RECORDS BROKEN. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 323, 9 October 1908, Page 8
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