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Show "Female" Destroyers the Deadlier. Strangely enough, although the American destroyers carried greater fuel supplies than the British, they were rather more dainty and graceful In their lines a fact that inspired a famous retort which rapidly passed through the ranks of both navies. "You know," remarked a British officer of-ficer to an American, "I like the British Brit-ish destroyers better than the American. Ameri-can. They look so much sturdier. Yours seem to me rather feminine in appearance." "Yes," replied the American, "that's so, but you must remember what Kipling Kip-ling says, 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male.' " Admiral Sims in the World's Work. |