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Show CARDIFF IS CALLED BRITISH PITTSBURG CATJOIFF, Wales, March 24. Cardiff hns become luiown as the Pittsburg ot! the British isles. Like the American city, tho coal mines are largely responsible respon-sible for its boom, although shipping has played no small part. Some men who were shipping clerks two years ago now own a string of ships, and coal miners are inahin;r iv a -.m-cr. Just to :-how that it has made a lot of money, Cardiff invested 0,000,0-00 in the last British war loan. This works out at the rate of more than 150 a head of tho population and is the most remarkable of all the contributions that came from any one city in the British isles. |