The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . e woollen industry in the West Riding of Yorkshire, thecotton industry in Lanca;shire; hosiery, etc., in Derby and Notting-ham; potteries and iron in Staffordshire; iron and metal industries inMiddlesborough, South Durham, South Staffordshire, and SouthWales; chemical and other industries in St. Helens, Newcastle, andBirmingham; shipbuilding on the Tyn
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . e woollen industry in the West Riding of Yorkshire, thecotton industry in Lanca;shire; hosiery, etc., in Derby and Notting-ham; potteries and iron in Staffordshire; iron and metal industries inMiddlesborough, South Durham, South Staffordshire, and SouthWales; chemical and other industries in St. Helens, Newcastle, andBirmingham; shipbuilding on the Tyne. To these may be added themanufacture of machinery in Birmingham, JNIanchester, Bolton, and 314 COUNTRIES INVOLVED other industrial centers; agricultural machinery in Ipswich, Lincoln,and Bedford; railway engines and stock in the railway centers ofCrewe, Derby, and Swindon; leather in Nortihampton, Bristol, Lei-cester, Birmingham, Walsall, and London; and cutlery in its natural advantages, England has been re-garded as backward in its agricultiue. This is owing to the greatadvantages the country possesses for the prosecution of wheat capacity is high, howevei—thirtjr bushels to an acre. Wheat. British troops at maneuvers. The band around the cap shows they are of the White Army is grown chiefly in the eastern counties, Shropshire, and the south-west. Other cereals grow well in the north. Cattle and dairy-farm-ing form an occupation of the counties of Cheshire, Devonshire, andStaffordshire. Sheep are plentiful in the counties of Nottingham,Leicester, Rutland, Northampton, Lincoln, Yorkshire, Devonshire,and other southern counties. Affected by its insular position and by the Gulf Stream, the cli-mate of England is much milder than that of any other country inthe same latitude on the Continent of Europe, or in America. Eng-land has been therefore described as a great hothouse kept above thesurrounding temperature by never-ending curren
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