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Islands of the Pacific governed by the U.S. include (in order of proximity to San Francisco...
...square miles and a population of 255,000, is a territory. For nearly five years Wallace R. Farrington has been governor. His most notable utterance is: "The eventual destiny of Hawaii is to enter the family of states with the full rights of statehood." Two thousand miles from San Francisco, 4,600 from Panama, 4,300 from Manila, 3,400 from Yokohama, these islands are the "cross roads of the Pacific." Sugar is the leading industry...
...Pacific, ceded over to the U.S. by the native king in 1872. Samoa later became a U.S. dependency under a tripartite agreement with Great Britain and Germany. Under the administration of the Navy Department, its present governor is Captain E.S. Kellogg, U.S.N. It is 4.200 miles from San Francisco, 4,200 miles from Manila. Its 9,000 natives, called the highest type of the Polynesian race, are all Christians. The chief product is cocoanuts, the dried kernel of which is copra...
Guam, ceded to the U. S. by Spain, is 5.000 miles from San Francisco, 1,500 from Manila. Also ruled by the Navy Department, its present governor is Captain Henry B. Price, U.S.N. Cables and radio stations make Guam internationally important...
...Nikolayevich, grandson of the Tsar Nicholas I. The German pre-War penetration of Russia had been too deadly for any Russian commander to succeed. Too late the Grand Duke proved himself fit to rank with Ludendorff, Joffre, Mackensen, Foch, by his masterly "retreat without destruction" along the Narew-Vistula-San-Carpathians front (1915) to lines so well chosen that they held for two years longer. During that time many an Allied commander thanked God that the Grand Duke was keeping several German armies so busy that they could not be transferred to the Western front...