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...explosion that felt on shore like an earthquake blasted her apart, killed 29 men. Another victim was the 11,063-ton refrigerator ship Sussex, damaged in the English Channel. Off one east-coast port, the British 8,886-ton freighter Mangalore was lying at anchor when a mine sank her-added evidence that at least part of Germany's attack was with illegal floaters. Further evidence in this direction was furnished when two mines bumped together and went off thunderously near Zeebrugge. Victim of a floating mine was a 54-ft. whale, found on the Belgian coast with...
Just to show it was not "mastered," one U-boat added to Germany's sea score last week by nailing the new British cruiser Belfast at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, sending her back crippled to Rosyth naval base. Another U-boat sank a small ship which Berlin claimed was a Q-boat-an armed Britisher disguised as a Dutchman to lure submarines. The British identified this ship as the innocent 5,133-ton Dutch freighter Sliedrecht, whose crew was turned loose to drift in a lifeboat for seven and a half days...
Beside all these casualties-bringing the week's total to 24 ships of 92,400 total tons sunk by Germany-Allied exploits sounded skimpy. The British Navy sank or captured four small German freighters, one off Ireland. The French Navy claimed to have sunk three U-boats, two by the old destroyer Siroco, one by the little (719-ton) survey ship Amiral Mouchez...
...Catherine the Great's palace was the "mechanical" wonder of the age: laden banquet tables which, on command, rose or sank through the floor. They were manipulated by "a forest of human hands" whose owners stood waist-deep in the habitually flooded basement. Frequently the ropes broke, the tables dropped, the operators were crushed to death...
...Catherine II also was less Great than advertised, more liberal in word than in deed: The peasants "sank to the lowest level of slavery during her so-called enlightened reign." "She was a fairly clever woman . . . such a one as, given the means, might make a success as a London hostess...