Military Character

By Captain Wm. S. Sims, U. S. Navy
March 1917
In assigning me the task of delivering a lecture upon military character before the civilian naval volunteers, the Navy Department directed that the lecture be informal and non-technical in character ...

Admiral Dewey. An Appreciation

By Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. Navy
March 1917
To be among the great of history was the lot that fell to Dewey. The number of people who lived before us, and who stand out clearly in our minds ...

Prepare The Navy Yards For War.

By Naval Constructor Henry Williams, U. S. Navy
March 1917
"The greatest lesson of the present war is, that without a definite program for setting its industries on a war basis, no nation now can go to war safely." So ...

Handling Refugees

By Lieut. Commander Lyman A. Cotten, U. S Navy
March 1917
Among the many and highly diversified duties that a naval officer may be called upon to perform in these piping times of peace, is the handling on board a man-of-war ...

Naval Corps

By Captain Thomas W. Kinkaid, U. S. Navy
March 1917
If consideration be given to the varied duties of officers connected with the naval establishment, it becomes easy to picture that official body as subdivided into quite a large number ...

Professional Notes

Prepared By Lieutenant R. S. Edwards, U. S. Navy
March 1917
AUSTRIA Vessels Building.—Nothing is known about the ships now building in Austria. FRANCE Vessels Building.—Nothing is known about the ships now building in France. GERMANY Vessels Building.—Nothing is known about ...

International Notes: Naval War Notes

Prepared By Lieutenant R. S. Edwards, U. S. Navy
March 1917
ATLANTIC OCEAN, NORTH SEA, AND THE CHANNEL German Cruiser Raids.—Following many months of repeated reports of the presence of German cruisers in the Atlantic Ocean, it was announced on January ...

International Notes: Diplomatic Notes

Prepared By A. F. Westcott, Ph. D., Instructor, U. S. Naval Academy
March 1917
PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADDRESS TO THE SENATE On January 22, President Wilson conveyed to the Senate the outcome of his note to belligerents of December 18, and presented his views on ...

Review Of Books

March 1917
"Termination of War and Treaties of Peace." By Coleman Phillipson. 486 pages. ?6.oo net. (New York: F.P. Dutton and Co.) This work fills a gap existing in the various specific ...

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