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...good bait: May 7, p. 16 on passage of the Fleet from the Pacific to the Atlantic: of warships ... streamed steadily westward through the Panama Canal...
France has a large and expensive fleet of submarines and squadrons of bombers that can reach Berlin or Rome in less than four hours. Minister Barthou was not impressed...
Last month on her way across the U. S. from California to Florida the U. S. S. Macon got into rough air over Texas, broke two small girders, proceeded to Miami for repairs. Last week she set out to join the U. S. fleet in the Caribbean for maneuvers. Through a fog of military secrecy leaked news that not only had the Macon been "destroyed" by "enemy" aircraft, but also she had again suffered actual damage...
...engine bearing, that the Macon could navigate if necessary on only two of her eight engines. More significant was the Navy's explanation of the Maeon's "destruction." Given a scouting mission to locate an "enemy" aircraft-carrier, she had died a heroine while spotting the Grey Fleet for the Blue Fleet's gunmen. After her "destruction" she became "a new ship" ("ZRS-6"), spotted everything in sight on another scouting mission...
...Councilors of Sunderland, England, voted to withdraw a resolution they passed 15 years ago conferring the freedom of the city on Admiral of the British Fleet Earl Beatty. Reason: Because Earl Beatty of the North Sea had not once visited Sunderland to receive its freedom, he no longer deserved...