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Admiral Lin of the "independent" Chinese Navy bowed to U. S. Consul General Cunningham at Shanghai and said he was sorry that the Chinese gunboat Haichow had fired upon an American merchantman last December. Captain Hsu of the Haichow also apologized...
...Government despatched the gunboat Tulsa to Tuxpam, which was held by the rebels, and where a fight was imminent. The gunboat was sent to protect American life and property...
...About $30,000,000 is included for the completion of one battleship, two aeroplane carriers, six scout cruisers, thirteen submarines, three fleet submarines, one gunboat, two destroyer tenders, one submarine tender and one repair ship, which were under construction...
...Archipelago, Mindanao, a lieutenant and twelve men of the Philippine Constabulary were cut off from their base, the town of Placer, by "Colorums," fanatics. On the following day Colonel Bowers with another detachment landed on Bucas Island, adjoining this coast, and, under cover of machine-gun fire from the gunboat Sacramento, burned a town held by 600 Colorums. General Wood's yacht Apo was proceeding to the same region with reinforcements; for the Colorums in repeated attacks had killed some score of the constabulary - although the fanatics themselves lost about four times that number...
...Oregon on her famous run around the Horn to join Admiral Sampson against the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba. Since then he has been twice around the world in the line of duty: once with the Atlantic Fleet on its circumnavigation in 1908, again in command of the gunboat Wheeling. Six months ago he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations. Now the umpires come to him with the verdict: "The Canal is wrecked; the fleet is wrecked?on paper. An enemy can wreck them again?without paper. Something must be done. The Navy needs more Army." Both as a member...