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Turkey. If the rival mobs began to shoot it out in the Southeast, a good deal of the gunplay would take place in Turkey's front yard, the Dardanelles. With Italy's fleet on the prowl, Turkey sent her 23,000-ton, model 1911 battle cruiser Yavuz (the onetime famed German raider Goeben) and other naval units into the Sea of Marmara lying between the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Russia began maneuvers in the Black Sea after having laid mines off her main port Odessa and the oil port Batum...
...looked as if he might for a few days last week-could Japan pick it up? She probably could. Britain and France would be able to offer only limited interference. Since many U. S. experts consider the Philippines untenable in war, it is highly unlikely that the Pacific Fleet would care to contest an Indies grab. The U. S. people, knowing that Asia is a long way off, feel that it is not up to them to defend the Dutch Queen's property. Japan is unquestionably banking on that point of view as heavily as Hitler used to bank...
...Netherlands Indies' Army is little more than an efficient police force to keep the natives in order. The Dutch Navy could not long resist the Japanese Fleet, even though the invaders would be attacking recklessly far from home. Japan's Fleet is far from being as war-weary as her Army...
...under Napoleon. The parallels between that time and the present are not neglected by Mr. Adams. Napoleon was blocked at the English Channel as Hitler is blocked at the Maginot line, and Napoleon forced Spain into the war to get a base for invading England. The French and Spanish fleets then feinted an attack on the West Indies to draw Nelson's fleet from the Channel. That this elaborate trick did not succeed was Nelson's glory: he guessed it, doubled back, saved Britain at Trafalgar...
Topheavy favorites in the Varsity event, the Crimson fleet did more than just win that; it swept every race of the afternoon last Saturday on the Charles, bringing the Rowe Cup to Harvard again for the fourth time in as many years...