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Announcement was also made yesterday that Commander Williams, U.S.N., will replace Captain Adolphus Watson, U.S.N. as the head of the Department of Naval Science and Tactics at Harvard. Captain Watson, who was formerly Chief-of-Staff on the Battleship Division of the Pacific Fleet, has been ordered to duty on the General Board of the Navy Department...
These phrases describe the actual situation in Russia, not in Chile. In Chile, a land as long and slim as a string bean, the resources do not exist to defy World Capitalism. No battle fleet could seriously menace the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics which sprawls over one-sixth of the earth, but a second-rate navy prowling up & down the Chilean coast could pulverize every city, town and hamlet...
...Passed a bill bestowing a Medal of Honor upon Richmond Pearson Hobson for his attempt in 1898 to blockade the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor by sinking the Merrimac...
...capture of Port Arthur. When Emperor Meiji died, Tutor Nogi impressed his pupil by reviving the custom of junshi (''following in death"). He and Mrs. Nogi committed harakiri. Two years later the Crown Prince received a: tutor the resolute Admiral Togo who had destroyed the entire Russian fleet at the Battle of the Sea of Japan and who remains alive to this day, telling the tale...
...Battle of Jutland; of apoplexy; in Altona-Othmarschen, Prussia. Encountering superior British cruiser forces under Admiral Beatty (who had defeated him in the battle of Dogger Bank), Admiral Hipper outmaneuvered them, inflicted a terrific battering, but was forced to flee when the rest of the British Grand Fleet steamed up. Earl Beatty said last week: "He was a great fighter and a great fellow...