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...knots. Also in its stern there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will be pushed at sea. When an ailing battleship is brought into position before the ARD-3, the dock's great bottom tanks will be pumped full of water to sink its keel below that of the battleship...
When this is accomplished the cripple will be moved forward into the spacious midsection of the ARD-3. The water will then be pumped out of the bottom tanks and the ARD3 will rise, lifting the damaged battleship high and dry so that repairmen can get at its vital parts. The ARD3 will t»e so big that it can take care of anything the U. S. Navy now has afloat, and almost anything smaller than the Queen Mary that it is likely to launch...
...series of public speeches, which are proving so popular in the United Kingdom as to build him up handsomely as a candidate to succeed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Sir Samuel has already cheered Navy-loving Britons by telling them that the battleplane has by no means yet supplanted the battleship. Last week he drew thunderous London cheers with a bristling disparagement of both Fascism and Communism...
...Spain, outside the harbor of Ceuta, the Government warship Jaime I was preparing to resume its hit-or-miss bombardment of the Fascist rebel forts. Suddenly smack into range moved the most efficient warship in the world for its size, the German "pocket battleship" Deutschland. The Jaime I canceled her bombardment. Later came reports that the Deutschland had landed munitions for the Fascist rebel troops, that her captain had paid a "courtesy call" on the headquarters of Rebel General Franco. Eight German warships were in Spanish water last week, ready for anything...
Suspecting the scotched Reds would try to tamper with Athens' electric plant, General Metaxas moved a battleship to anchor nearby. He sent destroyers to overawe Salonika, the Greek city in which Reds are strongest. Greeks woke up to find that their walls had been freshly plastered at dawn with posters reading: "The Government measures were made necessary because the country was on the eve of an outbreak of a subversive and seditious movement fostered by Communist propaganda and aiming at disaffection in the Army and the spread of the spirit of Anarchy...