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...direct hits or by bursting in the water alongside. At heights where there is reasonable immunity from anti-aircraft fire, direct hits are hard to obtain; and at lesser heights, bombs are not able to pierce modern deck armor. Explosions alongside are not seriously dangerous to ships with modern con- struction. Accounts of tests and their results were given in detail...
Egypt. Answering the criticism of Mr. Trevelyan, ex-Minister of Educa- tion, on Egypt, Mr. Chamberlain reiterated Britain's solemn determination to "regard as an unfriendly act any attempt at interference in the affairs of Egypt by another power, . . . to con- sider any aggression against the territory of Egypt as an act to be repelled with all the means at her command...
...common bond represented by the Crown. Dominion Status within the Commonwealth does not legally empower any member to undertake any action which shall or may in any way undermine government by King, Legislature and Executive.*** The mere registration of the treaty seems in no way to invalidate this con- ception of government, but it implies the right of the Free State, if the Boundary Commission fails to settle the Boundary Question between Northern Ireland and the Free State (TIME, May 5 et seq.), to appeal to the League for arbitration of the difference instead of to the Privy Council...
...place for organized religion to begin warring on war is at the point where the churches and the war system come together, i. e. the institution of the military chaplaincy. Instead of this warring, however, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America had a bill introduced in Con- gress last February, the effect of which was to increase the number of chaplains from one for every 1,200 officers and men to one for every 800. Generals Hines, Pershing and Martin endorsed this bill, citing the chaplains' "usefulness" in maintaining morale. Also, the Federal Council has sought...
...Your Excellency was warned by his Majesty's Government, a little more than a month ago, of the con sequences of failing to stop this cam paign, more particularly as it concerned the Sudan. It has not been stopped. The Egyptian Government has now allowed the Governor General of the Sudan to be murdered and has proved it is incapable or unwilling to protect foreign lives...