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Thunder rumbled over the Mediterranean one day last week. The British-French Mediterranean fleet ploughed eastward to a rendezvous at Alexandria, Egypt. Lighter craft of the Italian. Turkish and British Navies played hide & seek among the islands of the Aegean. And in London the Admiralty announced that the Mediterranean was closed to British merchant ships-they should forsake the strait at Gibraltar and go the long way to the Orient round Cape of Good Hope...
...selected for the west coast cruise will board the U. S. S. Maryland at San Francisco and proceed immediately to Honolulu, where the regular fleet is holding maneurres this summer. The men have been chosen from a list of applicants and will join Naval Science men from other colleges...
...Fleet As Warning...
...coast of Britain, with their anti-aircraft guns loaded and alert destroyers screening them against possible submarines, the King George V, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Jellicoe and Beatty were reported by Britain's foremost naval commentator Hector Bywater to be undergoing their trials before joining the fleet. If all five of these 35,000-ton ships have reached this stage of completion, the British have done some fast work, for on ordinary schedule most of them would not have been completed till...
...details. It is divided into four branches: the Organized Reserve, who meet to train every week and correspond roughly to the National Guard; the Merchant Marine Reserve, made up of American seamen and officers on American ships which might be converted to auxiliaries in time of war; the Fleet Reserve, composed of men who have served in the Regular Navy; and the Volunteer Reserve, which class the graduates of the Harvard Naval Science courses and the courses of the seven other colleges which give the naval training will fall into...