German Battleship Fleet and New U Boat Developments
Germany expands naval power with 23,000 ton battleships carrying 15 inch guns and speeds up to 23 knots. New light and heavy cruisers join, including mine capable designs aimed at raiding convoys. Report also details U boat production, endurance, diving capabilities, mine dropping, and 1600 pound torpedoes.
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Germany
Jusland
Alups
Kremse
Kbrummer
Hummel
Wespe
North Sea
Lucia Submarine-Proof Vessel to Try Atlantic Run
The non sinkable Lucia, a 9000 ton ship seized from Austria, is expected to leave New York this week for a hazardous test against U boats. A naval commission led by Rear Admiral Winterhalter will inspect the buoying air tight cells before the sea trial.
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Naval Commission
Daniels
New York
Washingon
Lucia
Washington
Naval Board
A. P. Winterhalter
Navy
American Merchant Man Fights Submarine Off Coast
Washington reports an American merchantman Myanza was torpedoed and shelled by a German submarine. Despite five shell hits and two and a half hours of battle the crew refused to surrender and sustained the fight with no reported casualties.
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Washington
Myanza
Navy Department
Local Board Calls 14 Men to Entrain for Camp Pike
The local Board has received a call for 14 men who will entrain next Wednesday to Camp Pike. This constitutes the remaining Lafayette county quota of negroes in this call.
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Camp Pike
Lafayette County
Hogs Shipped From Oxford Area by Noted Planters
A car of fine hogs was shipped from near Oxford by Tankersley and Mathis, prominent Fayete county stockmen. Their stock and hogs total 72 head, with seven cars of hogs and cattle shipped this winter, found about ten miles northwest of Oxford.
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Oxford
Tankersley and Mathis
Fayete County
Ox Ford
Student Army Airmen To Carry U S Mail
Postmaster General Burleson announced bids open February 21 for five airplanes to carry mail between Washington Philadelphia and New York. The War Department will run the service for a year as part of the aeronautic training program. Six powerful airplanes are to be used beginning April.
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Washing
Philadelphia
New York
Burleson
War Ders
Aeronautic
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Kaiser
Emden
Hector UC. Bywater
US International News Bureau, Inc
Bulile Cruwers
Liewil
Ie Nora Sewif Toe Mos
Cucnys
Sireiucus
Cauk
Cruis
Ud Ou Hogem
Tis, Devingebeg and
Jouurbe
Wwe
Due Lew Lizden
Her Asters
U. S. Food Administration
Fairbank Company
Yankee
Suluiers
SIA
John L. Murray
The
International News Service
Peace Board
Copenhagen
Austria-Hungary
Ukraina
Berlin
Kiev
Brest
Litivosk
Liga
Student Army
U. S. Mail
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