Mason and Dixon's line separated two civilizations as markedly unlike as the peoples that confront each other on either side the Vistula or the Baltic Sea.

But the Germans of Poland, of Czeko-Slovakia and the Baltic States will amount to at least twenty millions of inhabitants.

He was, I knew, abroad, but I was glad at having obtained two very important clues: first, the address of the mysterious yachtsman, Woodroffe, alias Hornby, and, secondly, ascertaining that the young girl I sought was somewhere in the vicinity of the town of Abo, the Finnish port on the Baltic.

Four days of rough weather in the North Sea and the Baltic brought me to the Swedish capital, whence on the following day I took the small steamer which plies three times a week around the Aland Islands, and then across the Gulf of Bothnia to Korpo, and through the intricate channels and among those low-lying islands to the gray lethargic town of Abo.

They scuttled her somewhere up in the Baltic, I've heard.

"I have heard that the vessel was scuttled somewhere in the Baltic.

My father, because of his inhuman treatment of poor Elma, defied him, when it appears that Oberg, who was in Helsingfors, telegraphed to the admiral of the Russian fleet in the Baltic.

It is indeed certain that the Carthaginians frequented the Cornish coastas the Phoenicians had done before themfor the purpose of procuring tin; and there is every reason to believe that they sailed as far as the coasts of the Baltic for amber.

Many are taken on the coasts of Norway, in the Baltic, and off the Orkneys, which, prior to the discovery of Newfoundland, formed one of the principal fisheries.

It is an inhabitant of the northern seas of Europe, but does not enter the Baltic, and is not known in the Mediterranean.

THE PLAICE.This fish is found both in the Baltic and the Mediterranean, and is also abundant on the coast of England.

It is an inhabitant of the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the Caspian, and the Black Sea, and of the Danube, the Volga, the Don, and other large rivers.

In Russia, as in all the other great countries engaged in the conflict, with the probable exception of Austria, the war was popular and a wave of patriotic enthusiasm and martial ardor swept over the land, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, from St. Petersburg to Siberia.

CHAPTER XV THE MYSTERY OF THE FLEETS Movements of British Battleships Veiled in SecrecyGerman Dreadnoughts in North Sea and Baltic PortsActivity of Smaller CraftEnglish Keep Trade Routes Open Several Minor Battles at Sea.

Several Austrian vessels succumbed to mines off the coast of Dalmatia and in the Baltic there were a number of casualties in which both Russian and German cruisers suffered.

GERMANS SINK RUSS CRUISER On October 11 German submarines in the Baltic torpedoed and sank the Russian armored cruiser Pallada with all its crew, numbering 568 men.

The Pallada was engaged in patrolling the Baltic with the Admiral Makarov when attacked by the submarines.

Russia will need its twenty-five submarines for coast defense and probably will not send them out of the Baltic

The commerce northward through the Baltic was subject to the attacks of the Scandinavian Northmen, known as Varangians.

"Over at Kronstadt the Russians have ice-breaking boats which keep the Baltic clear enough of ice for navigation, and plow their way through ice fourteen feet thick for two hundred miles.

The Baltic, two hundred miles to the eastward, bound for Europe, turned back to the rescue; the Olympic, still farther away, hastened to the aid of her sister ship; the Cincinnati, Prince Adelbert, Amerika, the Prinz Friederich Wilhelm, and many others, abandoned all else to fly to help those in danger.

The Olympic and Baltic, learning by wireless that the rescues had all been effected, proceeded on their way.

Captain Baumgarten, heavy with his repast, lay back in his chair looking up at them through the clouds of his tobacco smoke, and pondering over the strange chance which had sent him, a man from the Baltic coast, to eat his supper in the ancestral hall of these proud Norman chieftains.

Advancing from the Black Sea to Livonia on the Baltic, Moscow and Kiow were reduced to ashes, and Russia submitted to pay tribute.

R106725, 3Feb53, United States Steel Corp. (PWH) CARPENTER, FRANCES The British Isles and the Baltic states.