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Show Fourteen Miles In Nine Years. Augusto Raldenweck, a merchant of Colmar, Germany was In Metzeval on August 5, 1914, and from there mailed a postcard to a friend, Paul Hatz, oil!-cer oil!-cer of the One Hundred and Seventy-first Seventy-first regiment of Infantry at Munster, a small town near Colmar. The card never reached Its destination, but on July 7 of this year It was returned to -the sender hi Colmar, thus taking nine years to travel 14 lfflles. The distance from Metzeval to Munster is ubout three miles, and from Munster to Colmar Col-mar It is 11 miles. |