In the popular mind, modern naval warfare is correctly typified by and embodied in the great battleships. One of these mighty engines combines more power, offensive and defensive, than did whole fleets of a few years back, and the cost has gone up as high as $12,000,000 and is still rising. It is natural that the thought of the whole world should turn to the effect of the aeroplane upon the battleship. Is it possible that one of these great costly battleships could be destroyed by one or more cheap little aeroplanes?
Two antiquated houses in downtown Brooklyn gave themselves up to science last night for the benefit of a group of future firefighters as their last act before going the way of condemned tenements. With 200 probationary firemen looking on from a vacant lot across the street, the four-story, eight-family brick houses at 79 and 81 Tillary St. were fired to give the rookies a closeup of the methods used by the Fire Department in besting blazes and effecting rescues.
A delayed-action bomb hit Buckingham Palace, residence of the King and Queen of England, Sunday night and exploded Tuesday, demolishing one corner of the north front and sending flying glass over the first floor.
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