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Show FOUR LITTLE BOATS MAKE RECORD TRIP Washington, D. C , Jan L What is? declared by navy department officials to have marked an epoch in the navigation navi-gation of submarines was the com pletion recently of the seven-hundred mile trip of four little submarines from Guantanamo. Cuba, to Christo bal, at the Atlantic end of Panama. With a rough sea and under th$ influence in-fluence of strong trade winds, the little lit-tle boats found no difficulty In maintaining main-taining their speed and position for the five days It took to make tho trip, the longest on record for any submarines under their own power. It was feared that the strain might tell on the personnel and that the crews would arrive in an exhausted condition, but the contrary was the case and the officers and men were in good, if not better, condition than at the outset. The vessels arrived with their fuel tanks over half fuli and in condition for "any service the might be called upon to perform. II is expected they will remain in tropical trop-ical waters for some time to come. |