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What was once the German ship Prince Eitel Friedrich, and is now the transport U. S. Grant, sailed out of New York Harbor for Porto Rico, the Panama Canal, San Francisco and Honolulu. Aboard were 19 Army officers and 980 troops destined for various posts. In addition, the passengers included Secretary of War Weeks, Mrs. Weeks and 27 Senators and Representatives, most of them with their wives, a few with their children. Each of the civilians will pay $2 a day for his food, just as Army officers do aboard transports. Otherwise, the trip will be free...
...Virgin Islands, lying about 60 miles off the east coast of Porto Rico, were bought by the United States from Denmark in 1917 for $25,000,000. There are three chief islands in the group, St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, and about 50 smaller islands, most of them unnamed and uninhabited. Their combined area is only 132 square miles and their population about...
According to Secretary of War Weeks, the flight had a great military importance. It proved that with two days' warning the Air Service could concentrate in Porto Rico an air fleet which would effectively protect the Panama Canal against attack by any enemy fleet approaching it from the Atlantic...
...PORTO RICO: A new ruling by the War Department will permit the enforcement of the Volstead law on the island. Opponents hold that, since no attempt is made to enforce the law in the Philippines, it should not be enforced in Porto Rico. It is pointed out, however, that Porto Ricans are citizens of the United States and Filipinos...
...Foreign Students of the Class of 1925 announced last night the election of the following Sophomores to the committee: Tung Liang Chang of Peking, China; Patricio Vanenzuela Confessor of Manilla, P. I.; Kyung Duck Har of Chunju, Korea; Unbay Hsu of Peking, China; Jorge Manuel Morales of Caguas, Porto Rico; and Luis Rechani-Agrait of Aguas Buenas, Porto Rico...