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Show Coast I.na In Cubs, One of the monthly niaitnzlneg publishes pub-lishes nn article by Kdwnrd Marshall, entitled "Covorlng s War," purporting to show bow the papers get the news and what It costs them. Ho deals principally with Cuba, and In tho ar-tide ar-tide occurs this paragraph: "To patrol pa-trol a coast Hue as great as that of Cuba (the island la over one hundred miles long), and to know every event of Importance within Us limits, was an extremely difficult matter." If Mr. Marshall's estlmste of tha dally cost of tha news-getting Is as wldi of the mark as that of length of Cuba we shall have to d . ,ae bis figures fig-ures by 18, for tba coast Una Is really over 1,800 miles long. To ba accurate: accu-rate: The northern coast Is tlS and tha southern ,72 In length. New York Proas. |
