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Show KNOW LITTLE OF WAR'S PROGRESS Scarcity of Ne-wspapers in Some Parts cf Ireland Keeps Fishermen in Ignorance, MALINMORE, Donegal, Ireland, Dee, 9. Newspapers are scarce In this part of Ireland. The fishermen know little of the progress of the war, but they can tell you in whispers of the German submarines which used to find refuge in the fiords of the coast until a jrreat fleet of British patrols was organized to fruard every harbor. They tell you all sorts of etories, partly true, partly imaginative, of torpedoes and mines sinking submarines by the dozen and of steam trawlers suddenly unmasking cannon and sinking submarines. subma-rines. Donegal bay, one of the largest natural harbors in the world, must be guarded day and Aiglit by patrol boats; likewise Lough Foyle, S willy and some twenty other harbors of this county. One sees no war prosperity in Donegal. The cost of living, aside from the fish caught, is doubling and a sovereign is a mighty scarce coin. Few of the peasants peas-ants are joining the army. Not more than 1200 have been recruited since war was declared, less than eighty since April, and there are 30,000 available men. |