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...boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano, Marques del Duero. On the bridge of the Olympia stood two men; one of them was Commodore Dewey, commander of the American fleet, the other was his flag officer. The harbor was very quiet for a few minutes; it was only a little after five o'clock but you could hear dishes rattling in the galley of the Marques del Duero and the sudden high voice of the cook...
...green sea lapped wickedly as it broke into little crests of foam. Suddenly the atmosphere vibrated to the staccato dots and dashes of radio-Admiral Kwanji Kato was ordering a night destroyer attack in the Japanese naval maneuvers in the Sea of Japan, 20 miles northeast of Mihoseki. The fleet broke up into attacking and defending parties. The defending warships threw out a smoke screen to hide the flashes of their guns. Bombardment be- gan under battle conditions. Cutting through the sea at full speed, the 850-ton destroyers Warabi and Ashi rode out to meet the "enemy," dashing fearlessly...
...Japan mourned and Emperor Hirohito sent a special representative to the fleet to express his sympathy. From Washington Acting Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson cabled...
Rear Admiral Hough, 56, reported the incident to his superior, Vice Admiral Clarence Stewart Williams, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet. He recalled, too, that while commander of the Yangtze patrol, the post he still occupies, he narrowly escaped death while playing golf on the Hankow course when Chinese soldiers fired upon him and his party. What the Admiral said on that occasion is not recorded...
...England, a plot of ground was discovered in London near Fleet Street, that had never been built on. Diggers unearthed "15 feet of solid history," relics dating from the Paleolithic period (with a gap from Saxon times to the 13th Century) to the present. ¶Workmen digging for foundations for the new Bank of England building turned up the leather soles of Roman women's shoes. Newspaper stories were written to the effect that styles have changed little...