'The Navy Department reported that Germany and aly were constructing two battleships capable of speed of at least thirty knots compared. with the fastest "American capital ships' speed of 21 knots at President Roosevelt "The "battleships Washington and North Carolina, however, Will be able attain a speed of 27 or 28 knots. In Errand of Merey The Navy Department admitted that It ships of the foreign powers reach Charleston, $.C., May 9, expectations of greater speed, they How President Rogsevelt partly may necessitate revision of American cipated in a dramatic errand battleship. construction.
"The French 39,000-ion battleships merey the high seas is told in radiograms received here from the Richelieu and Jean Bart were cruiser Philadelphia, in which the President has been spending a holi day in the Bahamas, The cruiser picked up a radiogram U.S. Losses in China from the Norwegian freighter Mara than, taking for immediate medical] Over $150,000,000 assisianee for an injured seaman,
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