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...fleet, prepare its plans for war. He is ex-officio Chairman of the General Board and ranking member for the Navy (coordinate with the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Pershing) on the Joint Board. To his desk will come the report of the umpires of the recent sham war at Panama (TIME, Jan. 28) in which the Pacific Fleet and the Panama Canal were "destroyed" or "rendered useless...
...recommendations, arrived at as a result of the "terrible effect" of the sham attack two weeks ago, are chiefly...
Preparations for the annual manoeuvres of the U. S. Fleet were announced last week in Washington. Last year a portion of the fleet staged a sham attack on the Panama Canal from the Pacific with the remainder of the fleet defending the Canal. This year the plan is to test the ability of the Canal defenses to keep the Canal open for the passage of the Pacific Fleet into the Atlantic and the length of time required to concentrate the fleet in either ocean by means of the Canal...
...warning to this effect is given in the foreword: "the nobility and gentry are cautioned that they are here in the presence of no band of passionate altruists . . . The editors are committed to nothing save this--to keep to common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible...
...nobility and gentry are cautioned that they are here in the presence of no band of passionate altruists. . . . The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep to common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give a civilized entertainment...