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...weakness of the Panama Canal defense, the Navy is now intent on its own maneuvers. The object of the present dash is to carry out such) a maneuver as would be required if our fleet left Panama to meet an enemy approaching across the Atlantic. The aim is to convoy a group of repair ships, mine sweepers, food, fuel, hospital ships and the aeroplane carrier Langley to Culebra in order to establish an advance base. Then, in case of a battle, the fleet would not be obliged to return all the way to Panama for refueling...
...enemy submarines, followed by the Wyoming and three other battleships, constituting the scouting fleet, since we have no cruisers suitable for this purpose. Following these came the battle fleet of nine ships in three columns, followed by Admiral Coontz's flag ship, Seattle. Behind this came the convoy. The protective screen of destroyers fell into position on all sides. Out into the Caribbean at full speed the fleet drove. Admiral Coontz's wireless to every unit was: "Well done...
Pioneer Trails. All normal children and those adults in whose mouths the taste of story book Indian blood is still strong will doubtless approve of Pioneer Trails. A masterly massacre is accomplished, in which a convoy of prairie schooners with their entire personnel, is wiped out. One small child escapes, to reappear 20 years later as the hero. Thereafter, the plot is simply a stencil, cut with the old familiar tools...
Steamers arriving at IChang on the Yang-tsze Kiang River declare that the American steamer Alice Dollar and a British vessel under convoy of the U. S. gunboat Monocacy were fired upon at Chung-King. The Monocacy returned the fire, not without effect...
...tons, measuring only 110 feet in length, and manned by officers and crew very few of whom had ever made an ocean voyage, could have crossed more than three thousand miles of wintry sea, even with the help of the efficient naval officers and men who, after training them, convoyed and guided them across, and could have done such excellent work in hunting submarines. We built nearly four hundred of these little vessels in 18 months, and we sent 170 to such widely scattered places as Plymouth, Queenstown, Brest, Gibraltar, and Corfu. Several enemy submarines now lie at the bottom...