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...state of the material condition of the fleet is now not satisfactory. Although the available funds for the present fiscal year remain about the same as for last year, retrogression is apparent because the ships are older and the maintenance costs are increasing accordingly...
Citizen Shearer is the same gentleman who, last spring, following fleet maneuvers, started discussion by a series of interviews in The New York Times in which lie declared that the naval ratio of England, Japan and the U. S. was 5?3?1?with the U. S. last (TIME...
Down Ludgate Hill he marches, into Fleet Street, haunt of journalists. A Gentleman with a Duster spies him and makes these notes: "Tall— ;rigid-lean gray face-heavy-lidded eyes-of an almost Asian deadness-upper lip projects-stonelike- impassive-like a figure from the pages of Dostoievsky- like a poor Russian nobleman...
...fleet consists of two battleships, one cruiser, seven destroyers, three torpedo boats, one auxiliary cruiser, four submarines. Destroyers and submarines are comparatively modern ships...
Having made sure of its ground, the Moscow Government reiterated its request for the return of the Russian fleet* which took refuge at Tunis after the route of General Wrangel's army in November, 1920. It even went so far as to appoint a commission to visit the fleet. The French Government found itself in a dilemma. Having recognized the Bolsheviki, could it refuse to surrender the fleet? Apparently not. But if it did surrender the fleet, Rumania and other Black Sea neighbors of Russia would be visibly annoyed, and Rumania is a close ally of France. What...