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...military detail with U.S. experts; again & again they have whistled respectfully at his apparent knowledge of Flanders-hills, creeks, towns, bridges. The President's particular forte is islands: he is said to know every one in the world, its peoples, habits, population, geography, economic life. When a ship sank off Scotland several months ago, experts argued: Had the ship hit a rock or had it been torpedoed? The President pondered latitude & longitude, said: "It hit a rock. They ought to have seen that rock." Naval Aide Daniel J. Callaghan recalled the rock, disagreed: "At high tide, Mr. President, that...
...British captured the first U. S. S. Washington in 1776 (on Lake Champlain). With shells, torpedos and bombs, the U. S. Navy sank its fifth Washington in 1924. This sacrifice was then supposed to be the highest form of sanity; the U. S. people were glad to contribute an unfinished, 32,000-ton battleship to Disarmament. The U. S. having adopted new standards of sanity, the Navy last week launched its sixth Washington...
...Convicted in 1923 of using the mails to defraud, he was paroled in 1930. On his sick bed he was informed last week (by his Explorer Friend Ralph Shainwald von Ahlefeldt) that President Roosevelt had granted him a full pardon, restored his civil rights. Gasped Dr. Cook: "Thanks -happy," sank back into a coma...
...British said Colonel Getz's superior, General Otto Ruge, understood their plan, went with them.) Furiously pursuing German airmen raked and bombarded the launches loading on Namsos' concatenated waterfront. They dumped rack after rack of bombs at transports and warships steaming away from shore. How many boatloads sank in the inferno the Nazis poured on them may not be known until the post-war opening of archives. At Gallipoli the British suffered 50,000 casualties out of 120,000 troops landed. The N. W. E. F. affair, a pint-sized Gallipoli, will probably lag far behind that proportion...
...heavy cruiser of the York class was hit by two bombs and set afire. The ship sank within 30 minutes following many explosions...