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Cuba. Here Secretary Hull did not stop, but when the ship to which he had transferred, the U. S. cruiser Richmond, reached Key West, he had a long two-hour conference with Acting Ambassador Caffery on Cuban affairs. Speeding to Washington, Mr. Hull gave correspondents to understand that the new Cuban regime would soon be recognized...
...recognize Mendieta's government. Unembarrassed by the general belief that he was responsible for Batista's making of President Mendieta, U. S. Observer Jefferson Caffery rushed off in a destroyer to meet his boss, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, homing from the Pan-American Conference aboard the cruiser Richmond. He then rushed back on the destroyer to tell President Mendieta "informally" that President Roosevelt plans to recognize his government...
...ging operations in northern Minnesota, I was 200 mi. from the point on Rainy River where International Falls, Minn, and Fort Frances, Ontario are now situated. . . . It was midwinter and a blanket of snow three feet deep made travel difficult. There were no roads. Accompanied by my head timber cruiser we covered the distance on foot and finally arrived at the Hudson Trading Post, one beautiful moonlight night after midnight with the thermometer at -40°. I viewed the wonderful water falls there and decided to become a real pioneer. The outcome was the building of 200 miles of railroad...
...just one victory to which Australian bluejackets can point with pride. In November 1914 the high-stacked German commerce raider Emden, almost at the end of its fuel after a spectacular career among Allied shipping in the Far East, was cornered off the Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser Sydney, beached and burned with a great loss of life among the Emden's crew. The Emden's gallant Captain Karl von Müller was captured and idolized as a good sport by Australians. The Emden's ship's bell was salvaged to become the Commonwealth...
...Dream a Japanese destroyer is anchored at Shanghai near the flagship of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, the cruiser Houston. Acting on his own responsibility, with no orders from his Japanese superiors, obscure "Lieut. Maki" abruptly fires a torpedo into the Houston, which sinks. Though a Japanese court martial sentences Lieut. Maki to be shot, war has meanwhile been declared. After a terrific air and naval battle most of the U. S. fleet is sunk and Japan as a starter seizes the Hawaiian Islands. The Dream ends as a monument to Lieut. Maki is unveiled in conquered Honolulu...