ARMY & NAVY: Retrospect

Agreement prevailed that the successful landing of marines on the North coast of Oahu, Hawaii (TIME, May 4), signified a victory for the attacking Blue fleet over the defending Black garrison.

There was, as always, one freak report. This would have it that the landing was permitted by the defense as part of its strategy and that, immediately after the landing, the Black aircraft annihilated the attacking fleet. But after one startling headline in such eminent papers as the Boston Transcript and The New York World, this freak was withdrawn from public view,...

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