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...colonies and the mother country will begin to be carried by air. Exception is Canada, no scheduled North Atlantic service yet being in effect. To haul the estimated 20 tons of mail which will leave London each week, Imperial Airways, long equipped with huge old rattletraps, has acquired a fleet of 28 Short Brothers four-motored flying boats. Last week the Empire's great new airmail network hit a snag before it could be formally inaugurated...
...spring of 1898, Spanish Admiral Pascual Cervera, handicapped by wretched ships, equipment and support, sailed his rusty little fleet of four cruisers and three destroyers across the Atlantic, straight through the operations centre of an over whelmingly superior U. S. fleet set to catch him, and safe into harbor at Santiago, Cuba without once sighting or being sighted by a U. S. warship. Navy censor ship hid that inglorious episode from the U, S. public, gagged war correspondents for another fortnight while the Navy made up its mind as to just where Cervera was. After Commodore Winfield Scott Schley...
...native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure of a snub in Rome for British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond when he called to ask the Italian Foreign Office whether further Italian troops were being landed in Spain through the British fleet now assigned to blockade its west coast. Attitude of Count Ciano, the Italian For eign Minister and son-in-law of Il Duce, was that the British were in the best position to answer their question...
...Public Works of Art Project he received an average of $35 a week to stay in his own studio, paint what he liked. What he liked was a group of U. S. sailors having raucous and somewhat indecent fun with their molls on Riverside Drive. He called it The Fleet's Inl Down to Washington it went, where Admiral Rodman, Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, and dozens of other brass hats proceeded to have tantrums. Cadets of West Point begged for a chance to hang it in a place of honor, but the painting was discreetly hidden...
...Commission also will regulate wages and working conditions on subsidized ships, sell or charter five Government-owned lines and decide whether the U. S. should help finance a fleet of airships like the Hindenburg...