An Italian naval engiueer lms designed a new type of unsinkable cargo boat, which has been accepted by tho Italian Ministry of Marine. The 'vessel has a displacement of 10,300 ton.*, and can carry fifty-eight hundred tons of i*rgo. It has a double skin, the space between the inner and outer hulls being filled vrith coal and other materials, which is intended to protect tho ship from mine or torpedo. -•' Unlike tho land, the temperature .f the sea does not fall at night, About 7,000,000 Americans are now paid employees of the Government,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 52, 26 November 1918, Page 5
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93Untitled Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 52, 26 November 1918, Page 5
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