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...true that the ship in question may have been violating the laws of the United States, but the offense did not warrant its being sunk beyond the twelve mile limit. Such an action offers the British government excellent grounds for protest and leaves this country without a valid excuse. The enthusiasm of the coast guard in executing their duties might be satisfactory to the W. C. T. U., but their breach of international etiquette certainly will not find favor in diplomatic circles...
...West. The 54, lately sunk in tests off the Florida coast to depths of 40 to 120 feet, from which two men with "artificial lungs" succeeded in escaping (TIME, Feb. 18) was on the point of starting north last week when the Navy Department sent instructions to try it deeper. Obediently the S-4 was towed out and sunk twice again, at 160 ft., at 200 ft. Chief Torpedoman Edward Kalinowski climbed through the escape hatch. He released a cork buoy attached to a life line, the other end of which was fastened to the submarine. Then grasping the life...
...many Spanish kings of the present Bourbon line have suffered from melancholia that last week Grandees of the Spanish Court evinced some uneasiness as King Alfonso XIII continued sunk in brooding, introspective grief for his late mother, Queen Maria Christina, who died just one month...
Theoretically, the Saratoga might have been sunk before its planes returned, when at last it fell under the guns of the searching Blues, but the damage would have been done; the Canal was "destroyed;" the supporting fleet must have circled the Horn to have reached the Pa cific...
ONDINE WAS ONE OF 12 SUBMARINES 600 TONS TYPE JUST COMPLETED SHE WAS ONE OF THE BEST AND NEWEST IN FRENCH SUBMARINE COASTAL DEFENSE PROGRAM WAS SUNK ON HER FIRST ENDURANCE TRIAL FROM BREST TO BIZERTA WE HAVE BUILT AND ARE BUILDING BIGGER LONG RANGE SUBMARINES OF OTHER TYPES...