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No one at 5,000 ft. or higher can "guarantee" what his bombs did. But the British Admiralty was quick to admit: 1) that the Fleet was back at Scapa (each ship girt with a "hula skirt" of cables to foil magnetic mines, à la Queen Elizabeth); 2) that at...
No less unorthodox is Phoneman Moore's midsummer method of taking a swim before breakfast. Stepping onto a balcony outside his second-floor bedroom window, he presses a button. From a swimming pool in the yard a model airplane climbs to him on cables. Sitting on a trapeze slung...
Despite Mr. Villard's reputation as a liberal, pacifist and anti-Nazi, German officials received him with courtesy, allowed him to go anywhere he wished, placed "cars and guides at my disposal with their compliments" and permitted him to send cables from Berlin "in which I was as critical...
A soldier with a flaming torch escorted Mr. Hore-Belisha home through the London blackout. "I may be back!" he told a War Office messenger, and to reporters who rushed to his small suburban estate at Wimbledon Common he mysteriously confided, "This is very big, much bigger than you imagine...
> To fend mine-laying planes away from the Thames estuary, the British moved their balloon barrage to sea. This they did by swinging motor trucks, from which the balloons are flown on long cables, aboard lighters which then were anchored offshore.