The Christmas Ship

By Admiral Hugh Rodman, U. S. Navy (Retired)
July 1931
The following item is from the New York Times of December 23, 1930:Washington, December 22 (AP)—Hundreds of happy children shouting from the decks of Uncle Sam’s warships will ...

Draft Convention Of 1932 Armament Limitation Conference

By Commander Lucius C. Dunn, U. S. Navy
July 1931
After a session interspersed with vicissitudes such as have character­ized all preceding ones, the prepara­tory commission for the Disarmament Con­ference, meeting at Geneva last fall, finally evolved a draft convention ...

Recruit Training

By Captain G. J. Rowcliff, U. S. Navy
July 1931
It is easier to know mankind generally than man individually—LaRochefoucauld

Battery Efficiency

By Lieutenant H. A. Guthrie, U. S. Navy
July 1931
Submarine personnel are accustomed to measuring battery grounds that exist on the ship in volts. The magnitude of these grounds is ascertained by using an in­strument known as a ground ...

The Hankow Incident

By Captain Elbridge Colby, U. S. Army
July 1931
EARLY in the month of January, 1930, a British naval officer driving an automobile in the city of Hankow, China, ran over a Chinese coolie riding either a motor cycle ...

The Straw That Breaks The Camel's Back

By Lieutenant Commander V. H. Godfrey, U. S. Navy
July 1931
There is a remarkable similarity be­tween camels, the motive power of the desert, and boilers, the motive power of the ocean, at least as far as the light cruisers are ...

Present Problems Of Naval Reduction

By Commander T. C. Kinkaid, U. S. Navy
July 1931
It is extremely difficult for the average citizen, or for that matter even for the average naval officer with his technical knowledge and training, clearly to visualize the efforts that ...

Discussions

July 1931
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Book Reviews

July 1931
Members of the Institute may save money by ordering books through its Book Department, which will supply any obtainable book. A discount of 10 per cent is allowed on books ...

Professional Notes

Compiled By Lieutenant Commander D. B. Beary, U. S. Navy Lieutenant Commander D. C. Ramsey, U. S. Navy And Professor Henry Bluestone, U. S. Naval Academy
July 1931
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