UNITED STATES.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. OWING TO SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. Reutcr Service. Beceived Aug. 22, 12.30 a.m. New York, Aug. 21. A quarter of a million sterling damage was caused by a fire at Brooklyn pier. Spontaneous combustion is believed to have caused an explosion, which spread to the Eteaniers loading for Europe. Naval gunners tinew the ammunition, overboard. CORRUPT COMMISSIONERS. Received Aug. 21, 5:40 p.m. New York, Aug. 20. Two members of the New York city military exemption board have been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for selling exemptions from the arniy service to East Side tenement conscripts. ARKEST OF W.W.W. MEMBERS. New York, Aug. 20. Troops at Spokane, Washington, raided the JjW.W. headquarters and arreat(d James Rowan, the leader, and 20 others on the eve of threatened outrages against agricultural and construction workers in four SUtea. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST U-BOATS. Washington, Aug. %). ■ The Government has prescribed the most drastic regulations, to come into | effect on September 1, on trans-Atlantic j merchant ships, in order to combat the U-boats. The ships must carry a prescribed armament, bo painted in order
to ensure the greatest invisibility, and carry a minimum of a dozen smokeboxes designed to create smoko screens when U-tooatg are sighted.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1917, Page 5
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