Word: warships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kaiser Wilhelm II paid a visit to the port of Tangier on board the Imperial Yacht Hohensollern, remained six hours and said enough to provoke an international crisis; 1906 Conference of Algeciras settled the whole Moroccan question and placed Tangier under temporary international control; 1911 Germany sent the warship Panther to Agadir and another international crisis was occasioned; 1912 France and Spain came to an agreement on Tangier; until 1914 a permanent settlement of the Tangier question was sought without success; immediately after the War the question was revived?Great Britain could not countenance any one Power opposite Gibraltar? France...
Then he will take up the subject of his expedition to Terra del Fuego, the region of desolation, stormy channels, mountain barriers, great glaciers, verdant forests, Cape Horn, itself. The Colonel will describe his trip on an Argentine warship to Ushnaia, the lone Argentine Penal Colony, southernmost town in the world...
Died. Rear Admiral William Clinton Wise, U. S. N., retired, 81, at Honolulu, Hawaii, from a cause not reported. During the Civil War he commanded the flagship Malvern, which, with President Lincoln aboard, was the first Federal warship to reach Richmond after Lee's surrender...
...Greek Government carried out part of the Council of Ambassadors' demands. The Italian naval squadron, escorted by a British and a French warship, was saluted at Piraeus. The memorial service to the Janina road victims was held in Athens and attended by members of the Greek Cabinet. Military honors were shown to the remains of the victims as they were transported to Italy. Greece can do nothing more until the committee of inquiry has delivered its report...
...Italian naval squadron to be saluted by 21 guns at Piraeus. The Italian naval squadron to be accompanied by a French and a British warship to emphasize the consolidarity of the Great Powers...