The Secretary of the Navy, the Hon, Curtis D. Wilbur, in his annual report, emphasizing the mult tudinous duties of the Navy, saya that its personnel, was been 80 need that one ship could not be commissioned till another placed in dry-dock, This proc Seriously affecting the Fleet ficiency.
Mr. Wilbur says that the proteetion of Americans in China has been most dificult. and has required very calm judge 'The principal Nanking March 24, Tt cannot be doubted, he declares, that the attack on the for-feigners there was premeditated anid carefully planned by organized troops; and, similarly, "there is no doubt that the prompt' and energetic action of the British and Ameri fleets prevented a sucre of foreigners, 'Ten Years' Imprisonment Dee. 19.
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