When the German Warship Falke Visited Olympia in 1905
In September 1905, Budd Inlet resounded with gunfire as a sleek German warship. the SMS Falke, fired off its guns. But there was no cause for alarm. The crew was only saluting the Governor of Washington State on the first official visit of a foreign warship to the Olympia area.
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