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...cards, the citizens of Singapore thought, that three Yankee cruisers had come 4,500 miles just to watch a squad of British officials break the ribbon stretched across the entrance to the island's huge new naval dockyard. Singapore and Britons the world over preferred to believe they were there to show Japan that at least two Western nations vitally interested in the Pacific were reaching the end of their patience with Japanese aggression in the Far East, to hint gravely that in the event of a general war in the Pacific the navies of Britain...
Just about the most promising American Communist who has made good in the Soviet Union is famed Stepan Semenovich Dybets. After doughty apprenticeship in the I. W. W. he was called from a Hoboken dockyard to Russia in the early days of the revolution, devoted himself tirelessly to instructing comrades in "American technique." Soon he became a Soviet citizen, presently returned to tour U. S. industrial centres and buy, for the U. S. S. R. a total of more than $30,000,000 worth of automotive machinery, plans, parts, cars and tractors. Today the main streets of Moscow are just...
From a court martial there is no appeal. Month ago Captain Henry Richard Sawbridge of H. M. S. Renown marched stiffly into a courtroom in Portsmouth dockyard and saw that his sword lying on the judges' table had its point toward him in token of guilt. He was retired on half pay and dismissed from his ship as responsible for the strange collision in mid-ocean between the huge battle cruisers Hood and Renown. Rear Admiral Sidney Robert Bailey, in command of the maneuvers, and Captain Francis T. B. Tower of the Hood, also court martialed, were acquitted (TIME...
From the old fort above Portsmouth dockyard a gun boomed out last week, and the Union Jack broke from the halyards of Admiral Nelson's famed old wooden flagship, the Victory. In the courtyard before the barracks honor guards of bluejackets and Royal Marines snapped to present arms as nine high officers, walking stiffly in the epaulets and cocked hats of their full dress uniforms, entered the building to hold an exciting court martial...
...power the Commonwealth Labor Government of Premier James Henry Scullin suddenly fell last week. In Parliament Irate John Albert Beasley M. P. charged that Commonwealth Treasurer Edward Granville Theodore was showing political favoritism in the distribution of jobs to Australia's unemployed. Jobs at the Cockatoo Naval Dockyard which lies in the Beasley constituency were being given to unemployed men from Treasurer Theodore's constituency, before Beasley constituents had a chance to apply for them. Treasurer Theodore denied the charge. Mr. Beasley demanded an investigation. Radical Left Laborites deserted the Labor Premier, joined the Opposition to defeat...