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...willingness to compromise was such that salty colleagues honored him and Admiral William Veazie Pratt with an accusation of "selling the navy out to the British." Equally criticized for his stand in the battle of mobile 6-inch v. heavy 8-inch guns, Admiral Hepburn swept his mobile Black Fleet down from the Aleutians during last summer's grand maneuvers, proved his point with a thoroughness which vastly dismayed such 8-inch conservatives as the man he will succeed next June, bearded Admiral Joseph M. Reeves...
Rear-Admiral Yates Stirling, Commandant of the U. S. Navy Yard in Brooklyn. N. Y., sounded off in similar, though more cautious, vein: "The rise of [Italian] air power . . . seems to have drawn the teeth from the League's Sanctions. . . . The British Fleet, the great arbiter of the seas [can] no longer be considered invincible, at least not in closed seas in near proximity to Italy's land-based air force. ... A massed air attack ... to accomplish the destruction of Great Britain's mighty war fleet . . . might succeed...
...quietly, observantly in Japan. Stranded in San Francisco, he shipped aboard a windjammer, worked his 20,000-mile passage around Cape Horn to Liverpool. The World War took him as a private, left him a gassed officer. After the Armistice he went back to journalism. Last Christmas he left Fleet Street for good, went to the country to write more books...
...horribly, while after a dozen the back looked like 'so much putrefied liver.' After a time the bones showed through, blood burst from the bitten tongue and lips of the victim, and, expelled from his lungs, dribbled through his nostrils and ears. ... To be flogged through the Fleet to the tune of the 'Rogue's March' meant almost certain death, if not on the spot, a few days later; and on being sentenced to this fiendish punishment, an offender was usually offered the choice of being hanged. A severe flogging smashed...
...food, low pay and brutal officers were undermining the Fleet's morale, though the Admiralty was woodenly unaware. England was at war with France, Holland and Spain; it was no time to talk about grievances or reforms. When the Admiralty received identical petitions from eleven ships' crews of the Channel Fleet, it did not even acknowledge them. By the time the authorities woke to the fact that trouble was brewing, it was too late. They ordered the Fleet to sea; it stayed where it was. Less mutineers than strikers, the sailors respectfully but firmly took over their ships...