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...staged a May Day demonstration of its own. While Russia paraded its armed forces across the Red Square, the U.S.S. Leyte nosed into the Dardanelles, crossed the Sea of Marmara, anchored in the Bosphorus. Behind her trailed the cruiser Dayton, the destroyers Purdy and Bristol. The flagship Dayton fired a salute. Turkish shore batteries replied. The Turkish Government considered the U.S. visit purely routine. Said the U.S. Navy: it was simply paying a social call during a break in training exercises...
...task force will consist of one heavy cruiser, four destroyers, and a "Jeep" carrier. The men from the University detachment will probably sail on the cruiser...
Chauffeur Teodoro Pérez was the complainant. During last month's inauguration of President Tomás Berreta, he picked up three U.S. bluejackets from the good-will U.S. naval squadron led by the cruiser Fresno. The sailormen slugged him and robbed...
...almost unbelievable luck during the Casablanca naval battle. More 6-inch and 5-inch shells were thrown by the light cruiser Brooklyn alone than by the entire U.S. fleets against the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago. But at Casablanca U.S. ships suffered only five minor hits, while the French lost more than a dozen ships, sunk, missing or disabled. The Massachusetts almost took a spread of four torpedoes at once, but maneuvered between Nos. 3 & 4 of the spread, with No. 4 only 15 feet to starboard...
Party Clothes. One night last week, Ethridge left a party aboard the French cruiser Georges Leygues (which had carried him to Greece) and returned to the Hotel Acropole Palace, the Commission's headquarters. There, Commission Secretary Roscher-Lund, a Norwegian, excitedly confronted him with piles of petitions asking the Commission to intercede for the condemned five. Some were signed by families, many by carefully organized Leftist groups. Ethridge and Lund called up Alexis Kyrou, liaison man with the Greek Government, who arrived in a state of urbane sleepiness; they told him "unofficially" that it might be a good idea...