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...attackers and the attacked is radically different. Toward the end of the last war Britain had 496 destroyers, and could call to her assistance 100 U.S., 92 French and 67 Italian destroyers-a total of 755 friendly destroyers. Last week Britain had a few more than 300 escort vessels and destroyers, counting the 50 turned over by the U.S., and a few score of corvettes. In the spring of 1917 Germany had 128 submarines in commission; this spring she has at least 180, probably many more. And submarines are much faster now. So while Germany's offensive flotilla...
...Percy and his aides then send wireless orders to the ships at sea. In the case of convoys, they signal the naval escort, which consists in most cases of two destroyers, with here and there a corvette thrown in, trying to protect 20 to 60 vessels in the convoy...
...vernal equinox, whether it wants to or not, spring comes to the District of Columbia. On that day, each year, shivering photographers, muffled to the cheekbones, escort a beauteous damsel to the Tidal Basin and tell her to go climb a tree. Usually the Cherry Blossom Queen, posing as regally as possible while sitting on a knobby tree branch, gets runs in her stockings, barked knuckles and a ruffled temper...
...squadron had been lying in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 4,500 miles away, when news arrived last fortnight that Congress had passed the President's Lend-Lease Bill, promising aid to Britain's Empire. Sealed orders were handed to Rear Admiral John H. Newton. With four cruisers, an escort of nine destroyers, he put to sea, there learned that he was bound on a "training cruise" in Australian waters. The squadron split: six ships headed for New Zealand, the rest made for Sydney...
...hotbed of native revolt against the Italians. Haile Selassie's organ of propaganda was a newspaper written in Amharic, called Bandarchen ("Our Flag"), bordered with the Ethiopian Imperial colors, mastheaded with the monogram of the Lion of Judah, and bristling with nationalistic slogans. Sixty camels, with armed escort under a British officer, carried this peripatetic newspaper's printing plant as its editorial offices moved from jungle to jungle. While this strange propaganda rallied more & more blacks to the cause, Haile Selassie and his forces took Danghila, south of Lake Tana and only 200 miles from Addis Ababa. Djibouti...