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...retired, onetime Chief Constructor of the U. S. Navy, chief of its Bureau of Construction and Repair from 1903 to 1910; of heart disease; in Washington. On Admiral Dewey's staff during the Spanish-American War, he supervised raising and repairing Spanish vessels captured in the battle of Manila Bay. As Chief Constructor he evolved the all-big-gun ship, the skeleton mast which became a distinctive feature of U. S. warcraft...
First thing Manila knew of the revolt was when communications to all other parts of Luzon were cut. At San Ildefonso, due north in Bulacan Province, the U.S. flag was hauled down, immediate Philippine "independence" declared, a short-lived socialistic government set up. Sporadic sniping at constabulary detachments popped throughout three provinces of central Luzon. And at Cabuyao, on the main south road between Manila and the great U.S.-owned Calamba sugar estates, actual battle was pitched. Under a woman named Salud Argrave, several hundred Cabuyao rebels took over the town, seized the weapons of six visiting U.S. sailors, fought...
...overnight ride in a Pullman. With even less ceremony they refueled the Clipper and flew safely back to Alameda in 20 hrs. and 59 min. Later the big Sikorsky will make experimental flights over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway, first with mail only, eventually with passengers...
...weeks ago the hall of the House of Representatives in Manila was turned temporarily into an operating room. A doctor opened a vein in the arm of Gregorio Perfecto so that worthy delegate might sign his name to the new Philippine Constitution in his own warm blood. If a new Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands could not be founded by the sword, it was better, thought Delegate Perfecto, that it should be founded by the lancet than...
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