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...Manila, P. I., Tuesday, Oct. 16--A rearing typhoon ripped through Manila today with increasing intensity, causing great property damage and probable loss of life...
Bound from Manila to San Diego last year, Commander Whitemarsh found his 477-ft. navy tanker Ramapo wallowing up & down the slopes of waves the like of which he had never seen. As the speeding giants overtook him one after another, he stationed observers in various places, got out his cinecamera. While the Ramapo was borne up a windward slope, an officer on the bridge marked the top of the following wave by a point on the mast. To err on the side of caution, the crest was assumed to be on his horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably...
...predecessor, Wartime Admiral Sims. The tradition of the U. S. Navy is that the best defense is an offense. The enemy must be struck long before he can reach the long U. S. coastline. Admiral Sampson fought at Santiago. Admiral Dewey fought 7,000 mi. away from home at Manila Bay. The Navy hopes it will never have to battle with its back to the shore, but Admiral Reeves is taking no chances. Just as von Hindenburg prepared for his great victories against the Russians in 1914-15 by painstakingly studying the topography of the Masurian swamps, so Admiral Reeves...
These words, tapped from a Manila-Detroit telephone call by short-wave radio sets, crackled into the home of many an eavesdropping Philippine resident. They recognized the voice of Bachelor Frank Murphy, their U. S. Governor-General, knew that he was talking about his official residence, low-rambling Malacanan Palace,* gathered that he was talking to a crony in the U. S. city of which he was once Mayor. His transpacific conversation was inadvertently public because the telephone company had not yet installed its "privacy bays" to scramble outgoing messages...
...respect, however, last week's action made Filipinos already independent. Foreigners in the eyes of the U. S. immigration law, they were entitled to a quota of 50 emigrants to the U. S. per year. To grant immigration visas, a U. S. vice consul was appointed to Manila just as if it were any other foreign port. Named to the post was Henry B. Day (Yale '27) who until last week was Vice Consul in Hongkong...