Foreign News: With Davy Jones

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)

As the sun was shining with full splendor upon the sea which surrounds the Scilly Isles, a flight of airplanes soared into the air from their seagoing carriers. For several miles they whirred their way through the morning stillness to a spot where H. M. S. Monarch bobbed like a bottle on the rippling swell. As each machine passed over, a large, fat bomb was dropped; for the Monarch was to be sunk in accordance with the terms of the Washington Arms Treaty.

After the airplanes had returned...

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