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...Among this group were only the German and Austrian Jews from the Virgilio. After the hearing we were told that we were free and could continue our journey with our wives. Rear Admiral Muselier, Commander of Marseille, personally came over to our truck and assured us that we could sail soon and that our papers and money would be returned to us. In the meantime, however, we had to return to the concentration camp to await further orders. On Oct. 15 the Admiral appeared before us again with his staff to assure us once more of our early departure. Finally...
...night before sighting land the Admiral knew it was near (as the best experienced seamen do) by the look of the sea, the gathering of clouds, and the flight of birds. He ordered sail to be shortened lest they overrun in the night. . . . It was a nervous night . . . with the dipsey lead hove every quarter-hour; . . .the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil...
This week, to get for themselves the most perennially interesting and important news in the world, meteorologists from the U. S. Weather Bureau got ready, to sail on two 2,000-ton Coast Guard cutters, Duane and Bibbo, to permanent weather outposts on the Atlantic. At points one-third and two-thirds of the way between Bermuda and the Azores they will station, send up balloons with instruments to measure pressure, humidity and temperature, keep a constant, weather-wise eye on the sea, wireless their reports back to Washington...
They told them: how they had once wanted to attack the German prize crew which boarded their ship and forced them to sail her north to Murmansk; how Captain Joseph A. Gainard, lean, softspoken, restrained them; that the Nazi crew were "damned good sailors" but ate themselves stupid on U. S. cooking; how in Murmansk they had seen the liners Bremen, New York, St. Louis, Hamburg...
...laundrymen off the Spee, who were found asleep below decks on the Tacoma when Uruguayan naval authorities boarded her. They, looking innocent, were not interned. They hoped for the same treatment which Uruguay gave to 108 Chinese crewmen of the German merchantmen Anatolia and Nienburg, who mutinied, refused to sail out of Montevideo when war was declared. Last week Uruguay shipped them on the Italian Oceania to Genoa, whence another Italian vessel will take them to Shanghai...