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...admitted by Britain. At the same time Germany declared that only three U-boats had been sunk. Britain and France each replied with a report of another U-boat sunk, bringing the number claimed by them to more than 20 or nearly one-third of the known Nazi undersea fleet. From a smashed U-boat found on Goodwin Sands, British divers took more than 50 bodies. Score for the war's eighth week of all shipping sunk by German mines and torpedoes: six vessels, 28,677 tons. Score for the Allied blockade of contraband goods was not given...
...that have been holding things up for the last two weeks, Bollay declared, and as soon as they come and a schedule of training flights has been made out, the students who have passed the necessary requirements will graduate to the East Boston airport, where Wiggins has installed a fleet of 20 new Piper Cubs for the course...
Flagship of the British Grand Fleet in 1914 was Jellicoe's Iron Duke. She lay anchored last week in Scapa Flow at almost the exact spot near the Calves (rocks) of Cava where Reuter's ships went down. Four days after Prien's U-boat raid, Nazi planes in five waves swept over the Flow plunking bombs. They approached from the north over the central port of Kirkwall, where 60 neutral ships waiting to be searched for contraband saw them, and from the south over Duncansby Head and John O'Groat's, where British fighters...
...August the U. S. abrogated the 1911 Trade Treaty with Japan. And after Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell retired from command of the China fleet and came home in August to get from Franklin Roosevelt a Distinguished Service Medal for keeping the Japanese in line so far as U. S. nationals were concerned, he kept the fireball rolling. "If the Japanese plans succeed," the Admiral warned, "I doubt very much whether there will be any business for Americans in China." The Ambassador's slap, which was no less stinging for being deft, not only reminded the Japanese that they...
Fortnight ago the U. S. Pacific Fleet held maneuvers off San Pedro, Calif.; and 29 scouting vessels were newly based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The U. S. was considering helping China and herself by buying enough tungsten for ten years of war. Filipinos and interested Americans agitated for revision of the Philippine Independence Act on the ground that though battleships might have a hard time defending the islands from the Japanese, the U. S. flag defends them just by waving. "Fellow Americans" was what new Philippine High Commissioner Francis Sayre significantly called 15,000,000 Little Brown Brothers...