Proceedings Magazine - May 1927 Vol. 53/5/291

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The Battle of Wanhsien
Issue: Proceedings Magazine - May 1927 Vol. 53/5/291

The Yangtze River is navigable for steam vessels for a distance of sixteen hundred miles from the sea. Hankow, six hundred miles inland, can at all seasons of the year take...

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  • The Battle of Wanhsien
    By Lieutenant Commander Glenn F. Howell, U. S. Navy

    The Yangtze River is navigable for steam vessels for a distance of sixteen hundred miles from the sea. Hankow, six hundred miles inland, can at all seasons of the year take ocean going vessels. Ichang, three hundred and fifty...

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  • The Defense Against Propaganda
    By K. L. Buell

    THERE is no subject, with the possible exception of war and military affairs, about which the average man knows so little, yet thinks that he knows so much, about which there is so much muddled thinking and so many false ideas, as that of...

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  • Guns Allowed Aircraft Carriers—A Paradox
    By Captain Walter S. Anderson, U. S. Navy

    The preliminary disarmament discussions at Geneva in 1926 occasionally produced something extra good. “I see by the papers,” as Mr. Dooley says, that one of the best contributions to those discussions was made by...

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  • The Awakening in May, 1917
    By Captain T. G. Frothingham, U.S.R.

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  • The Use of Chemicals in War
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  • Farragut and Mobile Bay—Personal Reminiscences
    By the Late Rear Admiral John C. Watson, U. S. Navy (Retired)
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  • Discussion

    Dirigible Metal Found to be Poor

    (See page 464, April, 1927, Proceedings)

     

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