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Otaki Mail, 20 January 1919, Page 4

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NEWS IN ERIEF. •i New York, January 15. • The “New. York Times” Washington correspondent"learns that Signor Caproni has signed a contract with the Brazilian Government to carry by airplane the mail from Genoa to Rio de Janeiro via Cadoz and the Azores within six months to the end of the war. London, January 14. Marshal Focli and Sir Douglas Haig are arranging for the withdrawal of the British and French troops from Belgium for the purpose of relieving the economic crisis and the high cost of living. Paris, January 14. The French ace of aces (champion of champions) Fonck will attempt to fly across the Atantic in a big British aeroplane from the Irish coast in March or April. Geneva, January 14. Twenty Russians and German Bolsheviks were arrested at Lausanne, and others were arrested in Genova. London, January 15., A Ilandley-Pago airship from Enghas arrived in India. Details are revealed of British cruisers called “K” boats, propelled by steam, with two funnels, of 2000 tons, 340 feet long, and-264 feet beam; surface sped 24 knots and submerged 10 knots; range 3000 miles, carrying eight or ten torpedo tubes and guns big enough to match anything except Dreadnoughts of battle cruisers. The part they played in defeating Germany cannot yet bo disclosed, but they proved one of the most valuable I arms of the naVy. i The Rciehsbank’s gold reserve, which is being transferred to Frankfort, is estimated at £100,000,000.