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Orders have been received announcing details, Sergeant Walter Bender, 8th V. S. Cavalry, and Sergeant William Lynch, Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. A., for duty at the University. Other sergeant instructors will follow...
...should not blind us to a realization of our acquiescence, voluntary or enforced, in the orders of the British Admiralty, whereby commerce and passenger traffic between Germany and the United States are completely cut off--and this in spite of the ineffectiveness of the Entente blockade along the Baltic coast of Germany. Again, how shall we condone the affront to our national honor represented by the constant rifling of our mails, in violation of one of the most sacred principles of international...
...What regard has the British Admiralty shown, during the course of the war, for the rights or convenience of Americans on the seas? One naturally feels prompted to ask further: "If the loss of American lives, resulting from our insistence on entering the war-zone established around the sea-coast of the Entente Powers, constitutes a casus belli, why may we not put into practice the sound policy embodied in the ill-fated McLemore Resolution, tabled, contrary to the best conviction of the majority of our Congressmen in response to dictatorial party pressure brought to bear upon them? In thus...
...unit, the objection being that such a unit would mean the concentration of material of the same kind, the diffusion of which would insure its better utilization. But for those men who are desirous of joining the army the committee recommends the Engineers' Corps, Coast Artillery and Ordnance Department...
...submarine in modern naval warfare. Beginning with the efforts of a number of individuals who built a fast type of small cruiser for the destruction of submarines, the movement has been received most favorably and finally the Government has authorized the organizing of patrol boat squadrons along the Atlantic coast. A course is now being given at the Charlestown Navy Yard as a part of the instruction for admittance into the Naval Reserve to enable men to run one of these patrol boats in time of war. Since each boat has a crew of only five men, it is possible...