As the U. S. cruiser Detroit swung into the Irish harbor of Kingstown last week, 40 bravely martial fortress guns went BOOM! !
There was, however, a pause after the 21st boom, which divided the 40 detonations into a 21-gun salute for President William Thomas Cosgrave of the Irish Free State, and a 19-gun salute for U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, both on board the cruiser.
Secretary Kellogg was visiting President Cosgrave, who was returning to Ireland after having signed at Paris a parchment called The Multilateral Treaty for Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy, Representatives...
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