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...fleet of 15 battleships, 68 destroyers, and other craft totaling 140 vessels, went into simulated night battle, culminating in an attack on the Canal. The maneuvers were principally elementary in nature because 36,000 of the 56,000 men aboard the fleet are comparatively raw recruits...
...fleets are beginning to be a regular feature of those harbors in the United States which have a dense enough hinterland to make bootlegging and liquor running highly lucrative. Scranton, Philadelphia, and Trenton are supplied by the fleet which lies off Highland, New Jersey. New York is fed from the sea by a fleet anchored off Sandy Hook and in the neighboring waters. San Francisco gets its Mexican, Canadian, and Japanese liquors from the armada plying outside the Golden Gate. Boston and the lesser New England ports are infested with smugglers from the Bahamas and the West Indies...
...latest fleet to arrive is composed of 16 vessels and lies between Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast, and No Man's Land. It supplies New York via Long Island with about 20,000 cases weekly...
...This fleet is said to be terrorized by a rum pirate called the Gray Ghost, a big steel trawler, which raids the rum ships and steals their cargoes. Being engaged in illicit trade themselves they are afraid to appeal to the United States or to the British Government, whose flag they usually fly for protection...
...Great Britain has been left far behind by France in the development of her air fleet," said Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air, to the British House of Commons. There are now 371 service planes owned by the British, while Prance has 1,260 machines in commission. The Secretary stated that, according to present programs, by 1925 France would have 2,187 military and naval airplanes while Great Britain would only have...