LATE WAR NEWS.
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AMERICAN PRECAUTIONS
AGAINST “U” BOATS. (Received This Day at 10.15. a.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. Government has prescribed most drastic regulations, to come into effect on Ist September on Trans-Atlantic ships, in order to combat “U” boats. They must carry the prescribed armament, and be painted in order to ensure the greatest possible invisibility, and carry a minimum of a dozen smoke boxes, designed to create smoke screens when “U” boats are sighted. AMERICAN MEASURES. TO STOP ~THE I.W.W. NEW YORK, Aug. 20. Troops at Spokane, Washington, raided the I.W.W. headquarters, ana arrested .Jas. Rowan, the leader, and twenty-six others, on the eve of threatened outrages against agricultural and construction workers in ’four States..
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1917, Page 1
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