Word: flags
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high seas to the American Government in recognizing the twelve-mile limit and in permitting the American coast guard cutters to enforce the laws of their country in the waters about Bermuda and Jamaica. But they did not include the right to sink ships that are flying the flag of their merchant marine. The limits to the bounds of courtesy are very much short of blowing holes in suspected schooners...
About every two years the flag officers of the Navy complete a tour of duty, are shuffled up and dealt anew to the chief naval commands so that they may gain experience in many posts. Last week Charles Francis Adams, new Secretary of the Navy, announced the first of the changes due this year. Chief among them were...
Over the mantelpiece in the Officers' Club, there hangs a photograph showing several of its War-veteran members standing with their flag before the Empire's most sacred military shrine?the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Proudly erect and tall beside the flag bearer stands Captain Barker, wearing seven decorations, including the D. S. O. Last week in Andover the Captain's former valet, one Wrigley, exclaimed incredulously: "Why the Captain always left his razors and soap-filled brush for me to put away. And I used to take his boy for walks! A little tyke he was, and always talking about...
East of this room is the President's private office, or study, for generations the old Cabinet room. Here on the flag-flanked "Resolute" desk, a long-ago gift from Queen Victoria, wait the morning papers. It is a cheery room, with bookcases marching up the walls. Here the President receives his favored visitors...
Died. Admiral the Honorable Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle, 92, of London, "Father of the British Navy"; in London. Admiral Fremantle was the only surviving flag officer born in the reign of William IV. He entered the Royal Navy in 1849, serving on the three-decker Queen. His grandfather, Thomas Fremantle, captained the Neptune at Trafalgar (1805) under Lord Nelson. His son, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, retired last year. Admiral Sir Edmund's snowy whiskers often festooned a royal carriage at the opening of Parliament. On his gist birthday he criticized the wary tactics of Admiral Jellicoe at Jutland...