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Chief reservationists were Senators Johnson, Hale, McKellar. Among other things they proposed that: 1) Britain give up her naval bases at Halifax and Bermuda; 2) U. S. entry into the World Court or League of Nations would void the Treaty; 3) All parties to the Treaty guarantee "Freedom of the Seas" to belligerents as well as neutrals in time of war; 4) The division of cruisers into gun categories is only a "temporary expedient" which would not bind the U. S. at future conferences; 5) The 10-6 naval ratio between the U. S. and Japan should be restored...
...Bermuda. From New London, Conn., started 42 stout-hulled yachts, big and little schooners, ketches, sloops, some with modern sails, some with gaff rigs, Genoa jibs, fishermen's staysails, all bound for Hamilton, Bermuda. All were well provisioned, for sometimes it takes twelve days to get there. No boat has ever been sent out for stragglers; they all get in somehow. There have been accidents, torn sails, broken masts, but no one has ever been lost. Each captain picked his own course, looking for wind. First to reach Hamilton was Dr. George W. Warren's Yankee Girl...
...Bermuda Round Trip. Roger Q. Williams and Lewis A. Yancey last year flew from the U. S. to Spain, to Italy, then quarreled. Recently Yancey in a seaplane flew from Long Island to Bermuda with an interrupting forced landing at sea. Last week while he was in Buenos Aires "good-willing," Williams, with Harry P. Connors (Navy-trained navigator) and Errol Boyd (onetime Royal Air Force-trained copilot) flew from Long Island to Bermuda, did not alight, banked and returned to their start in 17 hr. 8 min., first time such trip had been done. Their ship was the Columbia...
...York. Hack stands are divided into private concessions and public stands. The former on private property (railroad terminals, ferry terminals, shipping piers) are leased to low-bidding cab companies. Most of the large private concessions in the city are shared by Yellow and Terminal-not amicably. To the Furness-Bermuda Line dock, from which Terminal Cab has been temporarily ousted, Yellow sends 120 cabs, uses about 90, to discharge a passenger list...
Last week word came from the William Beebe expedition to Nonsuch, "most beautiful" island in the Bermuda group, that they had made deeper incursions into the sea than man had ever made before...