That was a good run you made when you rode your own and Miller's routes, and I'll see that you get extra pay for it.

All the late boats by both routes had been packed.

These will, at different stages, pass them over to others, who will show them the shortest routes.

They don't even leave town together or travel by the same routes.

The enlarged canal of New York, and the great railways which furnish direct routes from the West to the Atlantic, have of late years diverted from the Father of Waters a very large proportion of the exports of the West, but the steamers and flat-boats which floated down the Mississippi literally fed the Cotton States.

The constitution of the League was framed in 1895; and I note with regret that positively the five "principal objects of the League" mentioned therein have solely to do with the extension and facilitation of Britain's trade, and the "co-operation of the military and naval forces of the Empire with a special view to the due protection of the trade routes."

And, in addition, there were many transverse roads, equally good, joining up and cutting across the main routes at convenient points.

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.

Then, without a moment's delay, they disappeared, under orders to proceed to stations in the North Sea, to cruise in the Channel, the Atlantic or the Mediterranean; to keep trade routes open for British and neutral ships and capture or destroy the ships of the enemy.

Through branch lines projected through the firman, they are practically in control of both the Syrian routes toward the Cypriotic Mediterranean and the Lebanon valleys.

They also control the three Armenian routes of Cappadocia, the Black Sea, and the trans-Caucasian branch of Urfa, Marach, and Mardine.

They dominate the Persian routes toward Tauris and Teheran as well; and last, but not least, the Gulf branch of Zobeir.

* Routes from London to Paris.

This objection was one that could only be overcome by removing some of the faster merchant ships from the trade routes and arming them.

Between Southend and Boulogne and Calais the protection was given by the vessels of the Dover Patrol in the course of their ordinary duties, but for the other three routes special escort forces were utilized, and daily convoys were the rule.

In this system the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet, fixed upon a number of alternative routes between Norway and the Shetland Islands, which were used by all vessels trading between Scandinavia and Allied countries.

This procedure was indeed adopted on all convoy routes as they were brought into being, the rule being for the decoy ship to drop behind the convoy in the guise of a straggler.

Some of our submarines were also detailed to work in the vicinity of convoy routes in order that they might take advantage of any opportunity to attack enemy submarines if sighted; due precautions for their safety were made.

Under the new system the Commander-in-Chief Coast of Scotland at RosythAdmiral Sir Cecil Burneybecame responsible for the control of the Scandinavian convoys, the Admiralty selecting the routes.

The prisoners were broken up into parties, and sent back into Germany by different routes.

The last phrase was a significant reference to the fact that Agadir, though valueless for commercial purposes, might be invaluable to any Power which desired to molest the South Atlantic trade routes.

The reserve and supports proceed to their respective positions by the shortest routes, providing for their own protection by sending out covering detachments.

For one had a choice of two routes to Agua Fria, which was well over the border in Mexico.

Other routes to Europe have been proposed, and have been at times quite popular, the most feasible of which are those viâ Behring's Straits, or the Aleutian Islands, and viâ Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Isles.

It is really quite idle to dream of a warless world in which States are still absolutely free to annoy one another with tariffs, with the blocking and squeezing of trade routes, with the ill-treatment of immigrants and travelling strangers, and between which there is no means of settling boundary disputes.