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Later in the war Captain Sigsbee rendered notable service in command of the auxiliary cruiser St. Pawl. He captured the collier Restormel carrying coal to Cervera's fleet, as well as the cruiser Isabella II and the destroyer Terror...
...York-Newport Air Service (TIME, July 9) there occurred an unfortunate accident. After flying 20,000 miles on this route with perfect regularity, the Fleet Wing, one of the operating airplanes, dived sharply into the water on reaching the Newport terminal and was badly damaged. H. Gary Morgan, of New York, suffered complicated fractures of the left leg, which necessitated amputation above the knee. Mr. Morgan failed to rally from the operation and died four days later at a hospital in Newport. Two other passengers escaped uninjured...
Among those who demurred against ratifying the treaty was Senator Lemery. "The Washington accord is merely to make certain the impoverishment of our fleet. England keeps the mastery of the world where she has naval bases, while the United States has the new world and a large part of the Pacific. Japan shares with these two Powers mastery of the world's waters...
...Government was forced to accept the view of Senator Guilloteaux before it could obtain ratification: "So far as the Senate is concerned, we will not admit that the limitation on capital ships shall be imposed upon the auxiliary fleet, and we consider the Washington Treaty only temporary, to be extended only by tacit mutual consent. Moreover, we will not permit our country to be deprived, in any circumstances, of submarines, which are indispensable to our defense...
...Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired, needs no convincing. The Admiral closed a recent statement by saying that our great commercial ports, our navy yards and other vital positions will be rendered safe from attack only if we can concentrate more planes at the threatened point than the enemy fleet can bring from across the sea. He declared air defense would be successful " provided the defense is not messed up by the presence of our battleships within a couple of hundred miles of the scene of action, diminishing our air power by the number of planes required to protect them...