Popular science monthly . Few craft visiting Muscat have failed to leave their cards on the hillside. The names ofthe Red-Breast and Odin arc from fifteen to twenty feet high chiseled in rock The Submariiie Blockade Rtmner A U-Boat to Carry ConiraLana Car^5^. THANKS to the control of the NorthSea by the British fleet, the entiremanufacturing world has beenforced to realize its dependence uponGermany for many materials. Somecoal-tar drugs, dyes, and the like areworth anywhere from ten dollars to onehundred dollars an ounce; others can-not be obtained at any price. Germany,on the other hand, is
Popular science monthly . Few craft visiting Muscat have failed to leave their cards on the hillside. The names ofthe Red-Breast and Odin arc from fifteen to twenty feet high chiseled in rock The Submariiie Blockade Rtmner A U-Boat to Carry ConiraLana Car^5^. THANKS to the control of the NorthSea by the British fleet, the entiremanufacturing world has beenforced to realize its dependence uponGermany for many materials. Somecoal-tar drugs, dyes, and the like areworth anywhere from ten dollars to onehundred dollars an ounce; others can-not be obtained at any price. Germany,on the other hand, is beginning to feelthe pinch of want. Meat is so scarcethat it may soon be worth dollars apound. If it were only possible to runthe blockade in and out of Germany,what a fortune could be made by sellingcoal-tar products in the United Statesand food in Germany! Now it is ob\ious that the only suc-cessful way of escaping the blockade isto travel either above or below the vigi-lant British cruisers—travel in the air,or tra\cl below the surface of the carry even a few hundred pounds offreight through the air is out of thequestion. Neither the dirigible airshipnor the aeroplane could ever make muchmoney as a blockade runner, sini[)lybecause of its
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