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Show ENGLISH ASKS TO GO ON U. S. CUTTER Washington. Dec. 31. Lord William Percy, son of the Duke of Northumberland, Northum-berland, has asked the government for permission to go on the revenue cutter Bear, when she leaves San Francisco for Bering sea next spring, to hunt a species of ducks found only in northern Alaska He can get to Point Barrow, where the species Is found, only by the revenue cutter. His request is backed by the good offices of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador, and his brother. Lord Eustlce Percy, an attache of the British embassy here. |