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...British battleship . . . was ... hit between two forward turrets by a heavy caliber bomb. A half minute later a flame 500 meters [1,654 ft.] long appeared from the vessel, followed by thick smoke. When the smoke disappeared, nothing further of the vessel was seen except some floating debris...
...mixture of milk, pap, and Britannia-rules-the-waves; and the grown babies are not likely to surrender the guiding principle of their life without a struggle. The Empire will fight to the last ship, and with her fleet will go to Davy Jones many a German vessel as well. One may then reasonably wonder how dangerous to American liberty an enervated and depleted Nazi navy will prove, even assuming English defeat...
...Attack. Before the first crashing chords of the new Berlin overture were heard, the orchestra began tuning in the pit. A British armed vessel off Norway's west coast fought two German submarines. Fishermen took ashore half a dozen dead, 40-10-50 wounded, of both nationalities. The Britisher and one submarine went down. British submarines were in the Skagerrak, past German minefields...
...three triplets of dots-is a new signal, invented and used by the Allies since the beginning of World War II. It serves a double purpose: warns that the sending vessel may soon be in distress, calls up Allied war vessels for a possible kill. Landlubbers' translation: Stand by-Submarine Sighted. After she had given her alarm last week, El Ciervo did not see the potential enemy again...
...North Atlantic into Norwegian territorial waters one day last week came a bulky grey German vessel of some 12,000 tons. She looked like a merchantman: some said she flew the Nazi naval flag; at any rate from her name, Altmark, anyone at all conversant with World War II must have known that she was the armed tender for the late raider Admiral Graf Spee, a ship sought .furiously by the British Navy because she was reported to ' carry, in verminous prison quarters below decks, between 300 and 400 British seamen taken from the Spee'?, seven sunken victims...