Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the budget estimate for naval aviation, making the appropriation $57,174 less than last year's. The development program for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and Coco Solo, Canal Zone, was deprived of appropriations on the ground that it had never been approved...
...Premier Zaghlul has intimated his desire of conferring with the British Labor Government upon questions in Egypt, affecting British interests, his determination to achieve real independence for his country is likely to meet with a rebuff from London. The main British interests in Egypt are: safety of the Suez Canal route; safety of British interests in the Sudan, the sovereignty of which remains British pending negotiations with Egypt; safeguards for foreigners in Egypt who were hitherto under British protection; compensation for certain foreign officials; maintenance of military and air force bases...
...That the shore defenses of the Canal should be strengthened by installing four 16-inch guns on the Atlantic and five on the Pacific side of the Isthmus. (These guns are available to the Army from the Navy as result of the so-called Disarmament Treaty, and need only to be mouted at the Canal.) In the test attack ships bombarded the Canal out of range of its present guns...
...That the peacetime garrison of the Canal should be strengthened from the present 8,000 or 9,000 men to 12,000 or 15,000. In the recent attack, half of the Canal guns could not be manned because of insufficient personnel; a landing was effected and a fort taken by hostile marines because the garrison was inadequate...
Sweeping out of Cristobal Harbor, the U. S. Fleet started on a dash for Culebra, one of the Virgin Islands. Having completed its joint war games with the Army, which determined the weakness of the Panama Canal defense, the Navy is now intent on its own maneuvers. The object of the present dash is to carry out such) a maneuver as would be required if our fleet left Panama to meet an enemy approaching across the Atlantic. The aim is to convoy a group of repair ships, mine sweepers, food, fuel, hospital ships and the aeroplane carrier Langley to Culebra...