... THE ARMY AND NAVY GAZETTE, &c. THE AMERICANS IN THE CARIBBEAN. TN the report of the Secretary of the United States Navy, prepared last November, it was remarked that, if the United States had a navy at all, it should be one commensarate with the nation’s ...

... will be an assembly of many squadrons in Caribbean waters. It is expected that the Battleship, Caribbean, and Coast Squadrons will assemble in Hampton Roads about December 1, after which the Battleship and Caribbean Squadrons will leave for Culebra, and ...

... navigating branch, and medical officers. In the winter it is intended to unite the largest American fleet for manoeuvres in the Caribbean which has ever been brought together. The North Atlantic Squadron and that of the South Atlantic will be amalgamated, and ...

... demonstrations on the coast in order to scatter the ships, and then the hostile commander, with three or four ships in the Caribbean, might block or command tbe canal. An exponent of tbo other view is strangely enough a military officer, Colonel Peter C ...

... yield to his tempting, so will many readers who test the charm of his happy descriptions. His itinerary carried him from the Caribbean to the Rockies, and from the Rockies to the St. Lawrence, and though a slave to time he could diverge but little from the ...

... necessarily tako tho place reviews of tho books.l West Indian Tales ok Old (Duckworth). When tho Panama Canal finished tho Caribbean Sea will become one of tho principal ocean highways of tho world ; so tho author of this work, Algernon K. Asptnall, considers ...

... is that command of the sea is the only logical and real defence, and that the key of the situation will be found in the Caribbean Sea. Ships, not forts mobility of movement, not immobility, mus AXXUVX ~ fch like matters, st be left to the s of controlling ...

... Halifax on Monday A Reuter’s telegram from St. John s, Newfoundland on Monday stated that the vessel had been ordered to the Caribbean immediately to take the place of the Indefatigable, which had come north with yellow fever on board. The Indefatigable will ...

... rook in Buzzard’s Bay during the recent manoeuvres, is not likely to be ready to take part in the winter manoeuvres in the Caribbean. She is to be docked for extensive repairs, which are partly made necessary owing to the bad condition of her inner bottom ...

... with other vessels to determined. The Secretary also advocates a new naval station in the Philippines, and another in the Caribbean or the West Indies. ...

... itself. He was personally known to many Americans as he was years ago in command of a British squadron which patrolled the Caribbean, and they recognised in him a fine type of the British naval officer, an able seaman and a gentleman, courteous, chivalrous ...

... Appropriation Bill, 392, 447, 7X3 ; labour organisations and warshipbuilding, 640; “Wisconsin’s” target practice, 665 ; Caribbean manoeuvres, 666, 980, 1075; Brooklyn officers received Prince o£ Wftles, 686 ; Illinois “ mishap, 687 ; combined operations ...