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Another day dawned and there lay the cruiser Memphis, smart as a yacht. The Texas, massive manofwar, waited respectfully far offshore. The embarkation ceremonies were stiff but sun-warmed. The Texas poured out a torrent of black smoke and clove the deep blue Gulf for gay Havana...
...Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas," wrote Virgil, but in this instance much more fortunate is he who can divine the results of the new course at Annapolis. Those whose illusions concerning the virile midshipman, puissant hero of the boxing ring, the gridiron and the crows nest of a cruiser battling a nasty northwestern, have been shattered are warned against visualizing future admirals in knickers wielding mashles. There are some things, which a narrow deck and a heaving ocean will not permit. Golf might be said to come under the general category...
Ferry. Spick and span in steel gray, bright brass and Sunday "whites," the Texas, her captain & crew, will be waiting for the President at Key West to ferry him in six hours to Havana. A squadron of six destroyers led by the cruiser Memphis constitute the guard of honor. Captain Joseph R. Defrees is new aboard the Texas but his crew are well used to having glorified passengers aboard. The Texas is U. S. flagship and on her lives Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, commander of all the fleet.* When newsgatherers last week saw bigger & better portholes being built into...
...Chamber and Senate overwhelmingly ratified, last week, a bill calling for the expenditure in 1928 of 150,000,000 francs ($7,500,000) on the building of 15 new war boats totaling 37,500 tons. Boats: one 10,000 ton cruiser; six superspeed 2.500 ton destroyers; five submarines. (See COMMONWEALTH and GERMANY...
...Reichsrat or "Council of the States of the Republic" rejected a bill proposing that Germany should embark upon a naval building program which called for the construction of one armored cruiser of 10,000 tons. Since the august consent of the Reichsrat must be obtained before a bill can be introduced in Parliament, the proposed "naval program" was definitely quashed. (See COMMONWEALTH and FRANCE...