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...Spanish Basque harbor of Bilbao, H. M. S. Hood, most potent warboat in the world, plowed ponderously through mountainous waves with Vice Admiral Geoffrey Blake on its quarterdeck. Between the Hood and the harbor was the ancient Spanish battleship España, flagship of the Rightist fleet, and a half-dozen battered codfish trawlers armed with machine guns. Less than 100-mi. away a half-dozen British freighters were in the harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, loaded with food for beleaguered Leftist Bilbao, but by orders from London the Hood, with all the awesomeness of its 15-inch guns...
Added Laborite Ernest Thurtle: "Is the First Lord aware that the entire British Fleet is now toasting Potato Jones...
...Soviet Fleet contains only three battleships, each 26 years old. Besides plans for more submarines, cruisers, destroyers, Moscow announced that two new dreadnaughts would be built, each of 35,000 tons, equipped with 16-inch guns...
...waiting ships. Loadings are incredibly rapid. The steamer D. G. Kerr on Sept. 7, 1921 took on 12,507 tons of iron ore at Two Harbors, Minn. in 16½ minutes. Last week dock-hands at Duluth-Superior were working day and night to prepare for the big ore fleet...
...seaboard in the world. The tonnage of freight shipped and received at lake ports in 1929 surpassed that of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific ports of the U. S. combined. The gross tonnage of ships employed on the Great Lakes in 1929 was greater than that of the merchant fleet of Holland and nearly equaled the French merchant marine. The backbone of this trade is ore. Last week, because Steel's big winter had depleted supplies of ore at Lake Erie docks to 2,851,951 tons, little more than half the amount on hand last year...