Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left. By Admiral William Sowden Sims, Wartime commander of the U. S. Fleet in European waters. an estate valued at less than $3,000; in Newport...
...King George VI, handsomely bedight as Admiral of the Fleet, was standing in his splendid Throne Room at Buckingham Palace, receiving the diplomatic corps for the first time since His Majesty's accession. In strict order of precedence, each diplomat was presented by Lieut. General Sir Sidney Clive, a vigorous Court functionary with a clarion voice. In 1919 he was Military Governor at Cologne, cordially hated by its Germans, as were all the Allied "conquerors." Last week German Ambassador von Ribbentrop, instead of bowing to King George when presented by Sir Sidney, clicked his heels smartly together, gave...
...Twenty-four hours after the Nazi salute in Buckingham Palace, jittery Fleet Street was bandying completely groundless rumors that the Italian Ambassador had given King George the Fascist salute, the Soviet Ambassador had raised a clenched fist at His Majesty in the orthodox Communist salute. London's Laborite Daily Herald went haywire with a speedily disproved scare story that Ambassador von Ribbentrop was in course of installing at his Embassy the most powerful radio broadcasting station next to those of the British Government. All that had happened was that the German Embassy recently put up an impressive looking aerial...
...Suvoroff, Rozhestvensky's flagship, was soon put out of action. The hail of shell-splinters flying into the conning tower thrice wounded Rozhestvensky. Soon no one knew who was in command of the Russian fleet. All that could be done was to follow the ship ahead, until it sank or fell out of line, turning in helpless circles. By nightfall (the action began at 2 p. m.) the Russians were trying only to escape. Till midnight they were harried by torpedo attacks. Next morning brought the main Japanese fleet again to mop up the survivors. By then most...
When Tsushima's terrible two days were over, the Russian fleet had been annihilated. Out of 38 ships, three somehow got through to Vladivostok; three more limped into Manila, were interned. Five thousand Russian seamen went down with their ships; 115 Japanese went with them...