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...British censor officers came alongside. While seamen removed from the Rex's hold 334 bags of U. S. mail addressed to Germany and Poland, Sumner Welles, U. S. Under Secretary of State, left his post at the rail, joined the British officers at tea on the veranda deck. Presumably as a compliment to him, the Rex was cleared in the record time of three hours and 40 minutes. Then the British officers politely said good-by to polite Mr. Welles, and went off with the U. S. property they had come to seize...
...through the Navy Yonai plodded, pushing himself ahead with alternate fits of rebellion and unctuousness, in alternate shifts of deck and desk duty. He lost the hearing of his left ear in target practice, and quickly learned the political uses of deafness. In time he became chief of the big naval bases at Sasebo and Yokosuka, then Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleets. He was Navy Minister when Japan went to war, when the Navy let itself be sucked into the battle of Shanghai, when the Panay was bombed. He is said to have torpedoed an open military alliance...
...schedule of seven games listed for the league this week will find all other members also engaged. Dartmouth, with Princeton on deck, played Yale last night at New Haven. The Blue will meet three rivals, while Pennsylvania, Columbia and Harvard each will play twice and Cornell once...
...Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles sat chatting with British officials on the deck of the Italian liner Rex off Gibraltar late today while British contraband control officers removed 34 bags of United States mails addressed to Germany and Poland in defiance of Washington's protests against these actions...
...little tossing trawlers in the raw North Sea, who can scarcely defend themselves with rifles when Nazi bombers dive at them from the storm scud, Germany's air war on British shipping is a very real and horrid thing. Machine-gun fire sweeps the deck, bombs blow the ship apart, men are hurled mangled and stunned into the combers, the ship goes down leaving survivors to flounder and gasp and freeze until help comes, if it does...