Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such action-which would inevitably cost gallons of civilian blood-would be the release of aerial photographs emphasizing military objectives in British ports. Such photographs were lately released in quantity by German censors (see cut). As though anticipating raids by Nazi bombers guarded by Me-110s, Britain last week announced she was coming up with a new all-metal, two-seater Boulton-Paul intercepter plane, faster and more potent than her Hurricanes and Spitfires...
...only foreign exchange did Herr Bolten's principals seek in their naïve offering. They sought to get out from under the drain of port charges on their idle ships and upkeep of their idle crews. Allied shipping quarters last week estimated that Germany still had tied up throughout the world, 400 to 500 ships, with some 1,800,000 tons of needed car goes, which were running up charges at ?330,000 per month for harbor dues alone. To this situation could be added unrest among unpaid, underfed crews, to explain why, in recent weeks, one Nazi...
...Last week the Columbus passed out of the Gulf of Mexico at Florida's tip, with U. S. destroyers escorting her. Off Charleston, S. C. the U. S. heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa (President Roosevelt's last cruiseship) took up the patrol, to see that no untoward incident occurred in neutral waters. She rode so close to the Columbus that the latter had to carry a night light to avert collision, but no ill befell her until fugitive and escort reached a point 320 mi. northwest of Bermuda. Then the British destroyer Hyperion, which had heard Tuscaloosa's radio...
...blow after another!" Because their ship was unarmed, the Columbus' crew, taken to Ellis Island, could look forward to early freedom, as "distressed" mariners. Less clear was the status of the Nazi freighter Arauca (see p. 8), which brought the war close home to Florida pleasure seekers last week by running inside the three-mile limit off Fort Lauderdale (20 miles north of Miami), just in time to escape capture by H.M.S. Orion (cruiser...
...pride of the Nazi merchant marine which did not escape or scuttle was the 13,615-ton liner Cap Norte. Last week she arrived in English waters from the South Atlantic under a British prize crew. Another, the Düsseldorf, captured off Chile by the British cruiser Despatch, last week prepared to transit the Panama Canal under a prize crew...