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...former Germans went names, duties, pay, addresses, backgrounds of virtually every Panama Canal employe; of men who work on the Army's secret bomb sight; of mechanics who install fire-control apparatus on battleships; of plane designers; of Army intelligence officers' clerks who file, record or distribute in-&-outgoing secret or confidential matter for war plans, communications, the State Department; names of every U. S. motorboat owner, of confidential secretaries to President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull; names of all machine-tool makers...
...guard against gas. Over 45,000,000 gas masks were distributed, but gradually the fear blew away, and now only about one in five carries a mask, usually only when the war of nerves is fiercest. Last week the Government considered requiring gas masks as an admission "ticket" for bomb shelters; planned practice gas alarms to remind the people of this threat; put pressure on producers of gas-fighting equipment to speed...
Late in the week, Berlin announced that dive bombers had come upon a British convoy west of Crete, and in the ensuing attack had scored "severe bomb hits of heavy and medium caliber" on the stern of one battleship, forward and starboard on another battleship, and also on a heavy cruiser...
...Greeks claimed continuing success against these counterattacks. They said they had taken, and turned against the Italians, "highly impressive" new enemy fortifications near Corizza. At a mountain pass, a bomb dislodged a huge boulder, blocked a highway and trapped a convoy of 100 trucks, which the Greeks said they bombed to destruction. The Greeks still had things to laugh about: they heard that the new Italian Commander in Chief, Ugo Cavallero, had chosen to go to Albania the safe way-by land through neutral Yugoslavia, disguised as an engineer...
...London, where a well-trimmed imperial might nowadays conceal a secret agent, a policeman looked suspiciously at bearded Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman inspecting a bomb crater near the Bank, asked him whether he had any business there. Norman replied casually that he worked in a bank. "Well, sir," sniffed the bobby, "how about buzzing off and doing a bit of banking...