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Last week the Frankfurt radio station made Germany's first admission of her U-boat losses: 35. Unless work has progressed far more rapidly than is believed on the swarm of 150-tonners which the Nazis are reported mass-producing, the Allies have still the larger submarine fleet-but less opportunity to use it to advantage. The sending of groups of submarines, not merely isolated raiders, on the "particularly hazardous service" of raiding Helgoland Bight, revealed the Admiralty's anxiety to press the sea war home to Germany before spring comes...
...other islands off Germany's northeast coast, the roost of Lieut. Colonel Schumacher and his merry men was called Hillige ("Holy") Land by the ancient Frisians. Britain took it from Denmark and later traded it to Germany in exchange for Zanzibar. In 1914-18 Helgoland, as an advanced fleet base, fortified and protected by mine fields, gave Britain so much trouble that she afterwards insisted upon dismantling it. Her engineers spent three years blowing up its forts and moles. Britain suggested that the island, inhabited by 2,000 fisher folk, be turned into a bird sanctuary. By 1936, British...
...Roger is not famed, even among Navy men, for temperance of expression. And his effort to expand the Fleet's air arm into an autonomous naval air force on land and sea, is not likely to prevail over the dynamics of the man in charge of R. A. F.'s Coastal Command: bald, craggy-browed Air Marshal Sir Frederick William ("Ginger") Bowhill. This fearsome character, whose duty it is to protect British ports and shipping and to attack the enemy in, under and over the sea by loosing fierce falcons from Britain's headlands, is as jealously...
...Japan, he was Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai -the tall, boyish, amiable, aristocratic, experienced (thrice Navy Minister), pro-U. S., moderate Naval Commander in Chief who last summer threw a monkey wrench into the proposed Rome-Berlin-Tokyo military machine. As Navy Minister he refused to put his great fleet at the disposal of two major countries with minor navies...
...took a long time for Mr. Beven to make up his mind that such rates made good economic sense. About three years ago one of I. C.'s big customers, Commercial Solvents Corp., doubled its barge fleet. Scared I. C. chewed its cud, parleyed with Solvents Corp. for two years. In October it went to the I. C. C. with a petition for trainload rates on molasses. Month ago, I. C. C. brought forth its decision, that ". . . certain other forms of transportation which compete with the railroads can law fully, and do, give the shipper of large quantities...