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There began the greatest naval battle of modern times-a battle that for grand strategy surpassed Santiago seven years before, for decisiveness outclassed Jutland eleven years later. It was the kind of battle for which nations and navies build and spend and strive and dream for generations...
...Midshipmen to victory over Army, 6-4. After graduation he entered the engineering division, was in the belly of the U. S. S. Oregon, crowding steam into her old boilers to drive her at destroyer speed around Cape Horn from San Francisco in time for the battle of Santiago. For that deed well done Joseph Reeves was advanced four numbers in rank...
...acknowledged a major tactician, superior to his famed bearded 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...
...Speaker Santiago Alba entered the semicircular hall of the Cortes in Madrid one afternoon last week. It was time for the session to begin. The Government was proposing to extend Spain's handy "state of alarm" another month to scare off a general farm-labor strike. A trade treaty with the U. S. was in the making. But as Speaker Santiago Alba's eye swept the benches, he goggled. The benches were nearly deserted, Government and Opposition. "Where are they all?'' he asked. A page boy told him they had all gone to a bull fight...
...repugnance for these barbarous methods, Paraguay finds herself compelled to use them." Meanwhile the U. S. Congress passed the resolution granting President Roosevelt authority to ban the sale of arms to either belligerent. No sooner had the President signed it than he put it into effect by proclamation. In Santiago, Chile, El Impartial pointed out that the U. S., Britain and France were by no means the only countries guilty of keeping the slaughter going. Holland and Norway have sold the fighters rifle ammunition, Denmark. Madsen machine guns. Sweden, Bofors cannon. Spain, Oviedo rifles, Czechoslovakia's Brno Works, automatic...