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The crackling of shots speedily brought the Preussen and Kiel on the scene, and with a few hand grenades they made short work of every villa within a mile. A number of non-combatant American men, women, and children were killed and the actual assailants driven off. For a time the repairs went on in peace under the immediate protection of these two airships.
Not knowing her, he unwisely ran up the Red Ensign a red rag to a bull, indeed and asked the Wolf to report him "all well" at the next port. The Wolf turned about and sunk his little ship. Although the Captain was at one time on the Wolf almost in sight of his home in Mauritius, his next port was Kiel, where it is to be feared that he, an old man of seventy, was the reverse of "all well."
Frank's heart sank for some reason he was unable to explain to himself. "I have it!" exclaimed the German. "You are the lad whom I captured from a British submarine in the Kiel Canal not so long ago. I remember you well now. You escaped. So you are a British spy, eh?" "I I " began Frank. The German raised a hand. "It will do you no good to deny it," he said quietly. "I cannot be mistaken.
The Kiel Canal to be internationalized and an international zone twenty miles from the Canal on either side to be erected which should be, with the Canal, under the control and regulation of Denmark as the mandatory of the Powers. "Twenty-sixth. All land north of the Kiel Canal Zone to be ceded to Denmark. "Twenty-seventh. The fortifications of the Kiel Canal and of Heligoland to be dismantled.
At this moment you are covered." "Yes?" mocked The Kid. "Come in, major!" cried Don Floristo. A door at one end of the room, which had been standing half ajar, now opened. Framed in the doorway was the bloated, fat figure of Major Stover. In his hand was a derringer. Its twin black muzzles were leveled at Kiel Wolf's heart.
Great torches, although it was high noon were burning along the road, at intervals of four or five feet, in a continuous line reaching from the platform at Kiel to the portal of Saint Joris, through which the entrance to the city was to be made. Inside the gate a stupendous allegory was awaiting the approach of the new sovereign.
Under existing circumstances Leer and Papenburg could be used for transporting purposes, and these two with Emden could handle one division. The situation on the Baltic Sea is peculiarly unfavorable, no harbor, with the exception of Kiel, being deep enough to accommodate our larger steamships.
There are no proprietary rights in newly discovered worlds the reward is in the honor of the discovery, just as the best recompense for a good deed lies in having done it. The Royal Society was the recording station, as Kiel, Greenwich and Harvard are now. Herschel made haste to get his new world on record through his kind neighbor, Doctor Watson.
These compounds had a very surprising febrifuge action, without any unpleasant after effects or local disturbances. The most active workers in the field of synthetic formation of the alkaloids have been Wischnegradsky, of St. Petersburg who, unfortunately for science, died at an untimely age in 1880 Königs and Fischer, of Munich, and Ladenburg, of Kiel.
There are in addition agricultural high-schools, agricultural institutes, and technical schools such as veterinary high-schools, schools of mining, forestry, architecture and building, commercial schools, schools of art and industry; a naval school at Kiel; a colonial institute at Hamburg, with sixty professors and tutors, where men are trained for colonial careers, and which serves also the purpose of distributing information of all kinds regarding the colonies; there are 400 schools which prepare for a business career, with 50,000 pupils, and the Socialists in Berlin maintain an academy for the instruction of their paid secretaries and organizers in the rudiments and controversial points of socialism, military academies at Berlin and Munich, besides some 50 schools of navigation, and 20 military and cadet institutions.
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