Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours later the cruiser screen of the Atlantic fleet was sighted, tearing through the spume at 20 knots. As the fleet deployed into line of battle canvas targets were towed into place. Twenty 15-inch guns boomed simultaneously-at a cost for this single broadside of roughly...
Premierial Pre-Occupations. Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce of Australia, conscious that his Dominion needs the protection of the British fleet against Japan, remarked significantly: "Our people are now spending 18 shillings [$4.38] a head per year on defenses, practically twice as much as all the other dominions put together, and only five shillings less per head per year than the English taxpayer. . . . We would like to see each part of the Empire similarly bearing the common load...
Dark clouded the Yellow Sea. Long swaying fingers pointed skyward-masts. Aboard the Japanese flagship Mikasa the captains of the fleet faced their admiral across a lacquer tray containing the instruments used in committing harakiri...
Heihachiro Togo, Admiral of the Fleet, spoke with low purring earnestness. When he fell silent his captains filed past the lacquer tray one by one. Their eyes met firmly the piercing glance of Togo...
...Washington Conference (1921) on a 3 5-5† basis ± with the U. S. and Britain (see p. 11). Last week the Japanese Minister of Marine, Admiral Takeshi Takarabe, launched a campaign to secure, an additional expenditure next year of $60,000,000 on the Japanese fleet...