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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 215, 16 October 1909, Page 4

Some battleships have as many as 48 boilers. . The Trans-Siberian Railway is 3371 miles long. . Telegrams in cypher to Russia are not accepted. U\ Turkey proper there are not a million Turks. Last year 74.500 families migrated from Russia to Siberia. Russia's population is increasing at about the rate of 2 x /-> millions yearly. It is possible to travel from Lond>n to St. Petersburg in fifty hours. Over 90 per cent, of the woyWs supply of platinum is produced in Russia. Vew Jersey State, U.S.A., is constructing a boulevard along the ocean no leas than 120 miles loner. Tlic Russian ("Sovermnent hold «i monopoly for spirit, the gross revenue for which in 3!)07 amounted to <C7l,ofto f - Oflft. This is her main source of revenue. Whenever Hie Kaiser appears in public, he is accompanied by a Court reporter, upon whom devolve? the responsibility of stenographing the Imperial speeches. The Kaiser always revi*?* hi* speeches after their transcription in longhand, and Ihev are then final/;" "e----vised, before publication, by the GovForeign GJfictj,