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Africa, South America and Australia (Received 18, 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. The annual report of the gmithsonian Insttiute contains the findings of Mr W. W. Watts, the Britisk geologist, lending credenco to the theory that South Africa, South America and Australia were once parts of a great continent near the Pole. The report cited the cliief evidence as the scratches of glacial drift over rocks and glacial de- ; posits of gtavel fragments of the supposed continent can be fitted together fairly well, considering the dates of tke sevBrance,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 6
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