Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England last week arrived the first Australian contingent, a full squadron of trained airmen-pilots, gunners, observers, mechanics. They marched ashore singing The Beer-Barrel Polka. Their commander is as handsome a fighting man as the stenographers in London's Australia House have ever seen: Wing Commander Leon Vincent Lachal, nicknamed "Stumpy" though he is tall, blue-eyed, with wavy blond hair. (A number of Australians already flying with the R. A. F. may be transferred to "Stumpy" Lachal's command...
Neutral shipping was warned last week by the British Admiralty to 'ware a vast new mine field it was laying, all the way from Kinnaird Head, on Scotland's northeast shoulder, down to join the fields laid earlier off Yorkshire and in the Dover Straits. These 500 miles of North Sea are to be sown in a band varying from 30 to 40 miles wide, leaving eight miles of safe water between mines and shore. Secret alleys through the mine field will be left for British Naval craft, but neutral ships will have to use the Dover...
...also using Belfast for greater safety; and knowing that since the late Rawalpindi's encounter (TIME, Dec. 4) capital ships have been out looking for the raider Deutschland, and also convoying Canadian troops, some U-boat commander lurked for big game off the west coast of Scotland. Last week he found and hit with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between 1913 and 1915, all improved since with antitorpedo "blisters" of heavy armor amidships. From the British Admiralty...
...Told last week was the bizarre bravery of the crew of the tanker San Alberto, torpedoed in two off Land's End on Dec. 9. When they saw the stern half of their ship still floating nicely, they rowed their lifeboat alongside, reboarded her, got up steam and backed toward shore. A rising sea finally foundered their half-ship. This episode reminded sailors of the destroyers Nubian and Zulu in World War I. The Nubian was torpedoed, lost her bow, but her crew made shore with the after half. The Zulu, which lost her stern striking a mine...
Announcements in London last week revealed the steady creep and clutch of the Allies' octopus-like attack on Germany's economic life. Most important new tentacle of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare, sparkplugged by lean, dapper Ronald Cross, is a trade agreement with Sweden. Coal and textiles ranked high among Sweden's imports from Germany, iron ore and timber were her chief exports to Germany. With coal production in the Saar reduced by France's cannon, and coal deliveries down the Rhine and out of Amsterdam blockaded, Sweden was glad to contract for British coal...