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Show Bells Are Confiscated. BERLIN, May 26. The German military authorities have now confiscated all bronze bells weighing less than forty pounds throughout the empire. The only exceptions are mechanically operated chimes and the sisnal .and alarm bells of the railroads, steamsrnps and the lire departments. By this measure the government expects ex-pects to obtain several thousand tons of much-needed metal for thu manufacture of shells and other war purposes. The large church bells have long ago been uej for the same purpose. |