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...Office announced the appointment of General Sir George Francis Milne to be Chief of the Imperial General Staff in succession to General the Earl of Cavan, retiring. The appointment is not effective until February. General Milne is Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Command (military district in England) and was toward the end of the War in command of the Salonika Army...
MacMillan's party also heard from Secretary Wilbur of the U. S. Navy. The latter telegraphed to Commander R. E. Byrd of the Navy unit which is cooperating with the explorer, but not under his command, that, unless the three seaplanes taken were equipped with a regulation Navy aero radio set, they were not to take flight from the base ship. If the sets could not be installed, Byrd was to return with his command...
...three planes had previously been equipped with Zenith short wave radio sets-the product of a company reported to be headed by E. F. MacDonald, second in command to MacMillan. The Navy type is a long wave set, believed to operate better than the short wave type when a plane is in flight. It is also better for radio compass work...
Rear Admiral Charles F. Hughes will succeed Admiral S. S. Robison as Commander of the Battle Fleet. Rear Admiral Clarence S. Williams, now President of the Naval War College, will take command of the Asiatic Fleet. Rear Admiral Roger Welles will command the U. S. Naval Forces in European waters...
...past week must be read in this light. They are, unfortunately, in conflict with Occidental interests, and are endangering the lives of Western people and the Japanese who have largely absorbed Western culture. But, nonetheless, the movement is essentially one for liberty and as such should not fail to command a degree of sympathy, no matter how difficult that is, in all democratic countries...