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...prefaced his recommendation by declaring that the effort to sell the Government fleet to private owners was apparently a failure. "Developments thus far indicate that . . . most of the bids will be inadequate, and in the main the Government will be forced to maintain in some way the routes now being operated at its expense...
...That from 12 to 18 subsidiary corporations be created under the Emergency Fleet Corporation, each to operate a route and control the good-will and terminal facilities, assets of increasing value to the Government...
...largest naval display ever held in North Pacific waters will take place in Puget Sound on July 27. On that day President Harding, returning from Alaska, is scheduled to sail from Vancouver to Seattle. Some 45 units of the Pacific fleet will assemble...
...North German Lloyd now possesses 30% of its pre-war fleet...
Wells, English novelist, who predicted aerial warfare with such accuracy in 1909, bitterly assailed the Air League of Great Britain, which is advocating an increased fleet. According to Wells, an air war between two countries such as France and England virtually means suicide. A few bombing planes can destroy an entire city. No corner of the combatant countries is safe from attack and defense is virtually impossible. To save modern civilization, the avoidance of aerial warfare, not the folly of competitive armament, should be the object of governments. Mr. Wells is a practical man, in spite of many fancies...