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During the month of March, 1917, the British captured 1,239 Germans, of whom sixteen were officers, and large quantities of war material, including twenty-five trench mortars and three field guns. During the first three months of the year they had taken prisoner a total of seventy-nine officers and 4,600 of other ranks.

Their cars pass almost without detention into and out of our territory. The Canadian Pacific Railway brought into the United States from China and Japan via British Columbia during the year ended June 30, 1892, 23,239,689 pounds of freight, and it carried from the United States, to be shipped to China and Japan via British Columbia, 24,068,346 pounds of freight.

Their cars pass almost without detention into and out of our territory. The Canadian Pacific Railway brought into the United States from China and Japan via British Columbia during the year ended June 30, 1892, 23,239,689 pounds of freight, and it carried from the United States, to be shipped to China and Japan via British Columbia, 24,068,346 pounds of freight.

The investigators found that in the 44 counties ... 4,743 ballots, shown to have been cast by the list of voters, are absolutely unaccounted for.... In 15 counties it was found that in certain precincts 2,239 more ballots were certified than there were names on the list of voters.... In 15 counties there were 8,067 more ballots on the amendment than there were voters checked as having voted.

The men were released, and the commission of twelve was dissolved. But on the 28th the Assembly, ashamed of having yielded tamely to a demonstration which was not overwhelming, renewed the commission, by 279 votes to 239. A more decisive action was now resolved upon, and the Jacobins prepared what they called a moral insurrection.

On the other hand, he declared that the Iroquois would fight the Illinois to the death; and La Barre dared not utter a word in behalf of his allies. The Onondaga next demanded that the council fire should be removed from Fort Frontenac to La Famine, in the Iroquois country. Docs., IX. 236. Compare Memoir of M. de la Barre regarding the War against the Senecas, ibid., 239.

Whether, however, this was the real meaning of the name is doubtful, for the name of the goddess is also written Aru and Arua, which points to a different verbal stem. See below under Tashmitum. There are indications also of an arrested amalgamation of Erua-Sarpanitum with Tashmitum, the wife of Nabu. Rawlinson, ii. 60, 30. Hibbert Lectures, p. 117. See further on, sub Ea. Kosmologie, p. 239.

They coalesce to some extent with conceptions derived from magic, divination, and taboo. The persistence of such savage dogma into civilized times enables us to understand how natural this dogma was for early forms of society. +239+. In the practices mentioned above there is no worship proper.

History of the Maritime Wars of the Turks, 20. Hājji Khalīfa, 21. Jurien de la Gravière, Doria et Barberousse, Pt. I., ch. xv. See the Story of Turkey, 158-163. See S. Lane-Poole, The Art of the Saracens, 239, &c. Doria et Barberousse, Pt. II., ch. vii. Ibid., Pt. II., ch. vii., p. 106 ff. See the Story of Turkey, 170; and the illustrations, pp. 137, 147, 171, 175, 177.

He took advantage of Johnson's death to make a beginning with the plan which he had here sketched, and induced his friends to give up their intention of setting up the monument in the Abbey. Reynolds's Works, ed. 1824, ii. 248. 'He asked Dr. See ante, ii. 239, where the question was raised whose monument should be first erected in St. Paul's, and Johnson proposed Milton's. The Reverend Dr.