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...guns in spite of the Admiralty's statement. The British Navy already has a range about 3,000 yards greater than ours. The Japanese battleship Mutzu is reported to have a range of 35,000 yards-5,000 yards greater than that of any American or British ship. In addition, the Japanese are spending $25,000,000 in modernizing their navy. These facts are considered sufficient to warrant the Navy Department project. Whether the proposed change can be made under the Limitation of Armaments Treaty is a question which Secretary Hughes is said to be discussing with the British...
...Poor Pinney is an inoffensive, pathetic and extremely objectionable little commuter. He is a tyrant in his own home and keeps up a brave front over his abysmal internal hollowness. He looks up to the local Babbitts with a marked awe, which he refuses to acknowledge to himself. His ship is always on its way in and never docks. His story is told with meticulous attention to the detail of his vulgarisms. THE GIRL NEXT DOOR-Lee Wilson Dodd-Button ($2.00). Mr. Dodd calls his book "the crabbed chronicle of a misanthrope." That is an authoritative statement of what...
Secretary of the Navy Denby: " While watching the old ship low a go down in naval target practice off Balboa, I said: ' She served her country in dying as she served it living. God bless...
...miles an hour, to overtake liners which have left New York harbor for English ports. Guided by wireless, the seaplane will alight near a liner and be hoisted aboard. The wings are to be of the folding type, which reduces considerably the space required for storing. When the ship is still hundreds of miles from the English coast the plane will be hoisted overboard and will fly away with the mail...
...Royal Mail Steam Packet Company operates the largest steamer, the "Araguya", playing between New York and Bermuda. The ship is a palatial liner of seventeen thousand five hundred tons displacement and the luxurious appointments of the ship are a byword with travellers...