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Tucked away behind the mountains of Lombardy, the tiny Lago d'Iseo, famed retreat of Italian notables, appears to the eye of passing aviators like a single glistening twisted tear upon the scarred visage of a giant. Last week a salute of 21 battleship guns boomed across this diminutive strip of water. Tourists afloat in ornamental near-gondolas, all but toppled overboard in fright. Shading their eyes and looking about for a super-dreadnaught which was nowhere to be seen, they marveled...
...said: 'The Navy doesn't send a battleship out to the Great Lakes to show it to the taxpayers! It couldn't be done in the case of a battleship and it couldn't be done in the case of the Shenandoah, but they were so stupid it had to be proved to them...
Having inspected the Spanish land defenses, General Primo Rivera retired to the battleship Alfonso XIII, in Alhucemas Bay; and from thence issued peans of praise, in honor of General Saro and Fernandez Perez, who commanded the actual Spanish advance. Cried Primo, triumphant: "From now on there will be much war-If the rebels desire peace it will be they who ask for it. . . .Soon I shall be back in Madrid...
...Morocco. Along the northern concave side of the sausage which is Mediterranean Coast, the Spanish made a landing and bit out a little piece of enemy territory near Ajdir. The troops were embarked at Melilla to the east and cruised along the Riff coast for two days with convoying battleships, both French and Spanish, shelling enemy works. After two feints, one morning the battleship Paris steamed into Alhucemas Bay and began to shell the Riff positions at the main beach. For four hours the bombardment with 12½-in. guns continued. The Riffs replied with their handful...
...President Coolidge let correspondents know that he expected the building of another dirigible for war purposes ? viewing its loss like the loss of a battleship ? something to be replaced...