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This week in Tientsin, in Portsmouth, N. H., in Cavite and Shanghai, at Alaska, Guantanamo Bay, there will be parades, radio speeches and assorted red fire. Thus the Marine Corps will celebrate its 165th birthday. Since it was founded, the Marine Corps has had only 17 commandants; the head man of the birthday celebration will be William Ward Burrows' 15th successor: crop-headed, broad-chinned Major General Thomas Holcomb, spectacled veteran of more than 40 years' service. Burrows' command was only a few hundred men, armed with muzzle-loading muskets...
...Among the islands where Britain will lease air or naval bases to the U. S. are: 1. St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Thomas, Bermuda, Newfoundland. 2. Trinidad, Antigua, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Jamaica. 3. Trinidad, Martinique, Bermuda, Jamaica, Newfoundland. 4. Cocos, Bermuda, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbadoes. 5. Newfoundland, Guantanamo, Great Barrier Reef, Trinidad, Bahamas...
This summer the cruises have gone to Guantanamo, Cuba. Work on them has consisted in the main of five hours of lectures with the remainder of the time being occupied in washing the decks...
That the U. S. would immediately attempt such major development of its new sites was doubtful; it is already expanding its facilities at Guantanamo, Puerto Rico and the defensive centre of all Caribbean strategy-the Panama Canal. Only three of the new bases (Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad) would lend themselves to development as even secondary fleet bases. But along its new defense line the U. S. can well place docks, tenders, other facilities for destroyers, submarines, patrol planes and protected anchorages for capital ships. President Roosevelt has in hand $200,000,000 of blank-check naval appropriations to spend...
...Florida passage is invulnerable. Five hundred miles east of the Strait, between Cuba and Haiti, lies the Caribbean's central and most used sea gate: the deep, so-mile-wide Windward Passage. Commanding the passage is the U. S. Navy's leased station on Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, only a few miles from the rusting hulls of Cervera's armada...