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...been successful beyond expectation, and there was cause for new delight in the annual elections of delegates to the regional Soviets. On every side official candidates were achieving what Pravda called "a brilliant victory"-on ballots on which there were no opposition candidates. On ships of the Baltic Fleet, said a Moscow broadcaster, harmonicas played ceaselessly as the crews eagerly voted "for the invincible Stalinist bloc." He told how airmen fresh from bombing Finland leaped hastily from their cockpits to vote. In Moscow, said the announcer, Marshal Simeon Mikhailovich Budenny was elected delegate "several times over." Joseph Stalin...
...will dwarf the mine barrage laid in 1918 across the North Sea from the Orkneys to Norway by the U. S. and Great Britain together. That barrage (71,126 mines) took from early March to mid-October to lay. Great Britain's mine-laying fleet is certainly capable of faster work now than then, but manufacturing 200,000 mines will tax her arsenals. Mine mechanism is tricky, requires expert labor...
...after another has left sanctuary and tried running the Allied blockade to get home. Rule No. 1 of Germany's sea war being to diminish Allied tonnage, Rule No. 1 for homing German ships is to scuttle rather than be seized. Last week Paris reported half the German fleet moving into the North Sea, perhaps to cover the return of Nazi merchantmen. Allied naval forces tensed themselves...
...efficient blanket of censorship, a large group of long, grey shapes proceeded methodically in eight days from Halifax, N. S. to a port in west Britain.* In that camouflaged convoy were such crack passenger liners as Aquitania, Batory, Empress of Britain. Guarding them was Britain's main Battle Fleet, for on this convoy no slightest chance could be taken...
Died. Rear Admiral Reginald Fairfax Nicholson, 87, last surviving Civil War naval officer; of a heart attack; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. He served as chief navigation officer (1898) of the battleship Oregon on its spectacular trip around Cape Horn to join the U. S. fleet off Cuba. He was one of the two naval men in history to rise from the ranks to wear an admiral's four stars. (The other: John Paul Jones...