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THE AVALANCHE STARTS 515<br />

OH FOR A HUNDRED OF THESE!<br />

The little boat in the center, framed by the fighting deck and one of the guns of the Utah, is the<br />

destroyer U. S. S. Davis. These little scorpions of the seas are the best offense and defense<br />

against U-boats, but we have only a handful of them. As Germany possesses over two hundred<br />

submarines at the present moment, and has at least a thousand in the course of construction,<br />

we find it necessary to supplement our destroyer fleet by a flotilla of "swatters"—the onegun<br />

motor-boats that now are being made ready for action.<br />

CLEAR DECKS FOR ACTION!<br />

At this magic signal, the twelve hundred young men who comprise the crewof the U. S. S. Pennsylvania<br />

leap to their appointed places. Tackle is adjusted, ropes are pulled, and the superdreadnaught<br />

assumes the bare appearance of a fighter.

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