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know what exactly happened to the poor Shenandoah; she was an experimental ship, built in this country. I believe she was about 50% overweight in her structure. She had broken away from her mooring mast-an inefficient way of handling airships, anyway-last spring and her whole structure was badly strained...
...least for the present, that the country's first line of defense must be kept on the Pacific coast, Admiral Robison, in his flagship the Seattle, and Admiral Hughes, whose flagship will be the California, will be apt to spend much of their time near the great major ship concentration base at Bremerton, on Puget Sound. There Admiral Robison, 58 "proficient at tennis", and Admiral Hughes, 59, "a fire eater of a friendly sort", will enjoy halcyon days...
Herr Loebe, President of the Reichstag, with 40 members of that body and 400 other sympathizers, arrived in Venna for a great demonstration in favor of union of Germany and Austria. They traveled down the Danube by ship amid ovations. Thence he will go to Paris to consult with former Premier Herriot on the proposal-most distasteful to the French who view with alarm a strong nation to the west of them. Thence he will go on to the U. S. to attend the International Parliamentary Congress at Washington...
Recently, British ship owners and seamen's unions agreed on a wage reduction of ?1 a month for British seamen. The seamen in a number of ports last week repudiated the action of their union officials. Ships were tied up in the Thames and at Southampton. But other seamen were found ready to take their places and in most cases there was only a day's delay in sailing...
...French Governor of Martinique, going home on vacation, was shot five times through the window of the steamer's salon before the ship sailed from Port de France. The Governor was critically wounded. The would-be assassin surrendered, said he wished to kill the Governor because his own father had been killed in May in an election riot which the Governor had failed to prevent...