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...Navy Department recently secured a special appropriation of $6500,000 to increase the angle to which guns on 13 battleships could be raised, in order to extend their range. The reason given was that England was doing the same. Now the British Admiralty announces that the angle of the British guns was not raised and the range of their guns was not increased. The Navy Department, however, is considering increasing the angle of our guns in spite of the Admiralty's statement. The British Navy already has a range about 3,000 yards greater than ours. The Japanese battleship...
...meeting of the Engineering Society in Room 110 of Pierce Hall at 8 o'clock this evening eight reels of official navy moving pictures showing destroyers in action and taken during practice sessions of the Atlantic fleet off the West Indies will be exhibited. Life on a modern battleship in all its phases will also be depicted. The films will also show several instances of spectacular naval operations...
Eight reels of official Navy moving pictures will be shown on Thursday evening, January 11th, in Pierce Hall under the auspices of the Engineering Society. Pictures of destroyers in action taken off the West Indies, of life on a modern battleship, and of naval aviation will comprise a part of the program...
...well as naval--were possible, would that mean that we had made an end of war? The answer is in the negative. In the first place we have but to look back on the recent war to see that science has so far progressed that even if every battleship were sunk and every piece of ordinance scrapped, no nation would be rendered impotent to attack its neighbor. Gas and airplanes and innumerable other modern instruments of destruction, the manufacture of which can not be subject to control, would remain. Not only that but, looking back to 1918 again, we know...
...aeroplanes, among them some of the Verville scout which last year travelled 180 miles per hour and of the plan in which Major Schroeder established the world's altitude record. Among various other pictures were some illustrating the deadly use of shells in aeroplane attacks on battleship, and others showing views of the great races of the past few years...