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...shipping. Its customs dues are the one large and reliable source of income possessed by the Nanking Nationalists. Last week the native quarter of Shanghai was ineffectively bombed by hand grenades thrown from two hydroplanes belonging to Peking Dictator Chang Tso-Lin. The planes operated from the Peking cruiser Haichi which suddenly appeared before the Woosung forts, fired a few tentative broadsides and scuttled...
Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt had ample excuse to indulge, last week, in an honest, becoming sailor's blush. He will shortly have assigned to him as his flagship the new British post-Washington Treaty cruiser Suffolk. Strictly speaking the Suffolk, when empty of stores, water, fuel and ammunition, just comes within the Treaty limitation of 10,000 tons. But in the building of the Suffolk thousands of parts have been made of aluminum, where use of a heavier metal would have been standard practice. Judged from the standpoint of fighting strength, the 10,000-ton Suffolk probably...
...Nanking Outrage" of last year (TIME, April 4), when much U. S. property was looted by Chinese and one U. S. citizen killed. That Minister MacMurray had successfully concluded these negotiations became known recently, but not until last week did he steam back "up North" on the U. S. cruiser Marblehead and received in Peking the congratulations of virtually all his fellow diplomats...
...Passed incidentally the bill providing that a 10,000-ton cruiser shall be constructed at a cost of 80,000,000 marks, to become, in popular parlance "Germany's one battle ship...
...case of Rear Admiral Brumby, on whose behalf it was contended that he had not been technically made a defendant in the trial and that the equivocal findings did not justify censuring him. While the subject of this discussion steamed out of Balboa, Panama, on his flagship, the cruiser Camden, to oversee Control Force maneuvers at the Perlas Islands last week, observers studied the court of inquiry's alleged paradox to see why it should have puzzled the Navy Department...