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...Italy's current warboat building program - prepared weeks ago but ominous enough to seem to Frenchmen like a postConference threat. Twenty-nine fighting ships will be laid down this year and built at a cost of $40,000,000: one 10,000-ton cruiser; two 5,100-ton flotilla leaders; four 1,240-ton destroyers and 22 submarines. At London Italy signed, as did France, that part of the Treaty which provides for "humanization of submarine warfare" (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.) but this in no way restricts the building of submarines...
...flotilla of outboard motorboats, droning like happy bees, started up the Mississippi from New Orleans trying to beat the new record of 87 hr. 31 min. to St. Louis...
...group headed by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd himself. This smaller group will leave during the middle of September from Hampton Roads, Va., on the whaler Larsen. Both ships are scheduled to reach Dunedin, New Zealand, in the last week of October. Here a third ship, the Chelsea, joins the flotilla, which then proceeds 2,300 miles across the Southern Ocean to the Ross Sea and the Bay of Whales. The ships will remain long enough to see the expedition established in the ice village, the great wireless mast grounded in the glacier, then withdraw for ten months to escape...
...this summer a member of the President's retinue at Cedar Island Lodge. His especial duty has been the operation of a motion picture camera. But last week, as he walked along Brule River with President Coolidge, a new duty came to him. The President pointed to a flotilla of canoes, said: "You are the only Navy man in my party. I'll make you admiral of the fleet." Soon Officer Johnson was seen scrubbing the President's favorite fishing canoe...
...Searching (private recreation). William Beebe, unlike most explorers who talk for their dinners after they have made their more or less perilous expeditions, takes his dinner parties along with him aboard the private yachts of rich friends when he goes a-faring. Last week a flotilla of four vessels bore him company along the Florida edge of the broad Atlantic from Miami southward to the Florida keys. There, while his hosts sipped ices under the southern sun, Mr. Beebe dropped, under the shield of a glass-windowed helmet, to see what he could see swimming at the bottom...