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Officers on watch in the British Navy wear brown kid gloves turned down at the wrist. There were hours last week when officers of the Atlantic Fleet amplified this costume with big-hammered Webley service revolvers bulging their hip pockets...
...Britain $243,000,000. That went too. Ramsay MacDonald resigned as Laborite Prime Minister and headed a coalition cabinet. France and New York arranged $400,000,000 more credit and that was exhausted while Chancellor Snowden was making drastic efforts to balance the budget. Last week the British Atlantic Fleet mutinied in protest at their prospective wage cut (see p. 20) and next day London learned that Britain's gold reserves were down to ?59,742,000. Scot MacDonald rushed up to London and summoned the House of Lords (Commons were already sitting) to an emergency session...
...rebels. Chile's army & navy have had many an old German warrior on their rosters. The army still wears Prussian spiked helmets on dress parade. But Chilean Admiral Eduardo von Schroeder is not to be confused with Prussian Admiral August Ludwig von Schroeder, who was a German Wartime fleet commander. Admiral Eduardo is young, amiable, Chilean born. His father, despite his name, was a Russian and went to Chile many years ago as consul at Santiago for the Imperial Government. Last week Admiral Eduardo rode in a launch out to the flagship, the grey-sided Almirante Latorre* while mutineer sailors...
...rebels tried to do the same. As the bombs whistled about their ears they dove gracefully overboard, swam ashore but were captured. After half an hour's bombardment the planes returned to land. The aviators sent word that next time they would really try to hit the fleet. Coquimbo's rebels believed them. They all surrendered...
...confused with most Latin-American navies is the Chilean. Their battle fleet is modernized, the Almirante Latorre is a first-class vessel. Laid down for Chile in England in 1911, she was bought by the British at the beginning of the War and served as the Canada. Chile finally received her in 1920. In 1929 she went back to Great Britain to be overhauled, modernized...