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...plowed with small craft filled with eager observers. The headlands were freighted with watching multitudes gathered from miles around. The Victorian Parliament adjourned for three weeks in celebration. In Melbourne, streetcar men postponed a strike until after the fleet's departure. All officials were profuse of words. Said Admiral Coontz...
...fuel, for food. At Pago Pago, the ships will refuel from their own tankers-an operation that, it is hoped, will take no more than twelve hours-and again the fleet will bear away, to the southeast. The cruiser squadron headed by the Seattle with three Admirals aboard- Coontz, Cole and Leigh-will go to Melbourne, Australia. The battle fleet, headed by the California under Admiral S. S. Robison, will go to Sydney, New Zealand. Later, a light cruiser squadron will go on from Melbourne to Hobart, Tasmania...
...Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison was advanced. He will succeed Admiral Robert E. Coontz after the return of the fleet from its cruise to Australia. Then Admiral Coontz will have leave of absence, and will be assigned to other duty?probably with the General Board of the Navy. Admiral S. S. Robison (not to be confused with Admiral J. K. Robison?see below) has been Commander of the Battle Fleet. A man of 58, he commanded at one time or another, the Cincinnati, Jupiter, South Carolina. During the War, he commanded the Submarine...
...greater part of the fleet was getting ready to leave Honolulu, last week, for its cruise to Australia, Major General John L. Hines, Chief of Staff of the Army, was back at Washington. He had been in Hawaii acting (with Admiral Coontz) as one of the two chief umpires of the war game in which the fleet attempted to take the Islands from the garrison (TIME...
...stroke for a dot, left a blank for a dash, gradually moving to the right over the rotating cylinder. Those who watched saw black masses shape into a cap, an eye, a mustache, another eye, a shadow by the nose-it was a portrait of Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. S. N., then in Hawaii serving as umpire in the U. S. "war game" (TIME, May 4, 11, ARMY & NAVY). When his picture was finished, the pen began again, sketched some U. S. soldiers at mess under the glaring Hawaiian sun. Six other pictures, traveling 255.85 mi. a minute, were...