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Suddenly one of the cruisers shuddered. About 200 yards astern of her a huge plume of foam scarred the blue of the Mediterranean and the blue of the southern sky. Other plumes from the same salvo walked out across the water. Every one a miss...
...Orients left Morro Castle astern, the U. S. delegation of 25 experts, advisers and secretaries relaxed in the comparative comfort of a late afternoon sea breeze. Havana, where other delegations were packing their bags, prepared to resume its midsummer lethargy. Wiry old Cordell Hull, bone-tired but satisfied, relaxed too. If a piece of paper would keep the Americas free, he had the paper...
...stands and air-raid instructions on the programs, there was nothing to remind 100,000 Englishmen, gathered at Aintree last week, that they were at war. Around babbling bookmakers they swarmed, slapping down shillings on the favorites: H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli (who finished just astern of Battleship two years ago), Scott Briggs's MacMoffat (runnerup to Workman last year), Dorothy Paget's Kilstar (third-place horse a year...
...hour later, in midafternoon, into view raced Hyperion. Tuscaloosa dropped a mile astern to watch the fun. Hyperion shot over the German's bows, commanding her to halt. But already the Columbus crew were performing their well-rehearsed act. Into the lifeboats went all the crew (there were no passengers) except twelve scuttlers, ten firers. Captain Daehne stayed aboard to oversee their job. Down below, the scuttlers opened all sea cocks. Through the ship raced the firers, smashing skylights, emptying drums of benzine and petrol, to make an unbroken trail past heaps of oil-soaked waste to the ship...
...Ajax dampered her fires and set a smoke screen behind which Formose escaped. Meanwhile the other two-now identified as the light Achilles (7,030 tons) and the heavy Exeter (8,390 tons) -were flanking out to sea. Ajax apparently did the same, astern of Spee. This meant two disadvantages for the German -shoals and shore to starboard, glaring rising sun behind the enemy to port. Captain Langsdorff gave the order to work out to sea, into deeper water...