Ludenscheid
Prussia, Germany, a town in Westphalia, 33 miles N. E. of Cologne. It is of considerable importance as a manufacturing center for hardware, musical instruments, canes, and cotton goods. Pop. about 35,000.
LÜDERITZ BAY, Southwest Africa, on whose shore the settlement of Angra equeña was established by a German trader, Lüderitz, in 1883. It became the center of the German Southwest African possessions, the harbor, though poor, being the best in the region. Lüderitz Bay was one of the first settlements to be lost by the Germans after the outbreak of the war, in 1914. The place was abandoned by the German forces in the second week of August, 1914, after as much of the harbor facilities as possible had been destroyed. Later this point frican was made the base of a South African army under General Sir Duncan Mackenzie in its operations against the German forces in the interior. LUDHIANA (lö-de-ä'nä), capital of the Ludhiana district (area, 1,375 square miles; pop. 650,000), in Punjab, India, situated 8 miles from the Sutlej, and the North Western railroad; is a thriving grain mart and has manufactures of Cashmere shawls, scarfs, cottons, turbans, furniture, and carriages. The chief feature of the place is the shrine of a Mohammedan saint which attracts a large concourse of pilgrims every year.
Pop. about 50,000.