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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 10

Sudd, n weedy growth which constantlyblocks tho Silo for tho distanco of tlio 300 miles or so known as-tho Sudd District, can bo converted into fuel: By a process invented and tested in .Germany, tho weed is .ground into powder and made into briquettes, which, burn readily, unci have a heating power iht:..--K----two-thirds that of coal. This discovery of a supply of cheap fuel is of great significance to tho future of the Sudan.

"Asportation" is a word that applies to acts of the criminal classes. A thief who porforms "asportation"—that is, tho removal of any article' from another person's ownership—must do it effectually, or it is ordinarily only an nttemnt, calling for a lighter sentence. The point ar'oso in tho Knglish Court of Criminal Appeal, .where a thief who had ..lifted a purso from a t'rquser. pocket to its edge, but no. further, owing" to the purse catching in a belt, was convicted of' "larceny from tho person." In a lengthy judgment tho Court held that it was only larceny owing to the defective "asportation," but as it was more than an attempt, the unfortunate appellant thief