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...Patrician burghers still blush painfully at mention of the shocking events of last year, when the native crew of Holland's biggest battleship, DC Zevcn Provincien, waited until the commander and most of the officers were ashore, mutinied, and seized the ship (TIME...
Soon two British battleships, three cruisers and seven destroyers were looking for the corpse of Surgeon Lieut. Robinson. When it could not be found, Dictator Kemal offered to send a Turkish battleship to throw a wreath into the sea while a British chaplain read the funeral service, "thereafter the incident to be considered closed." This offer His Majesty's Government accepted, breathed not a word about demanding either an indemnity or an apology from Kemal's Turkey...
Paris seconded the "big navy" drive of the British Admiralty as the French Naval Ministry told correspondents that Italy's recent appropriations for two battleships of 35,000 tons each in answer to the 26,500-ton battleship laid down by France will necessitate still greater French naval building...
Meanwhile France and Italy, which refused to sign the London Naval Treaty, are indulging in a naval race of their own. It started when France laid down the 26,500-ton battleship Dunkerque with a sister ship to follow, ostensibly as an "answer" to Germany's 10,000-ton pocket battleships. This spring Italy "answered" with an appropriation for two 35,000-ton battleships. Last week there appeared to be no force which could stop a world naval race...
...their platters. Decks tilted crazily while frightened Germans ran screaming from rail to rail. In a few minutes the Dresden's first S. O. S. was picked up by the coastal steamers King Harald and Crown Princess Martha, and the French navy despatch boat Ardent. The giant British battleship Rodney, visiting Stavanger, also heard the call but was told that no further assistance was necessary...