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...Brazilian Government angrily announced last week that U-boats had sunk five more Brazilian ships, one loaded with troops, off the coast between Bahia and the state of Sergipe. Though 13 other Brazilian vessels had been sunk previously, these were the first in coastal trade. The Vargas Government, denouncing the Axis, promised the crimes would not go unpunished...
...twelve bases (see map,p. 90) are at Amapá, Belém, Sao Luiz, Camocim, Fortaleza, Natal, Recife, Maceió, Bahia. Seven are land ports, five sea. (Pan Am is still negotiating for another land base at Bahia.) At each project, 500 to 800 men are at work...
...mysterious, so peremptory, so cruel that she might have been a submarine-and first reports of the sinking of the Clement led the world to believe it had been attacked by a U-boat. Survivors told a different story. Bound with a cargo of gasoline from Pernambuco, Brazil, to Bahia, standing about 70 miles offshore (580 miles inside the neutral zone set up by the Panama Conference; TIME, Oct. 9), the Clement was plugging along at her weary ten-knot pace when members of the crew heard an airplane. The plane circled around, shot bursts of machine-gun fire into...
...Captain Schultze" also said he was the man who torpedoed the Royal Sceptre on September 7, whose 32 survivors turned up last week in Bahia, Brazil aboard the British freighter Browning (minus their Captain Mestre, who apparently went down with the ship). "Schultze" said that, after sinking the Royal Sceptre, he set out to intercept the Browning because "I wanted to tell the Browning to take the course of the Royal Sceptre. The Browning sighted us, and to my surprise the crew manned the boats in a panic. Before I could even draw closer to give my peaceful message...
...send the message? After the BBC had fumbled with that for a time, Berlin sent its version: that another British ship, the Browning, had been spared by the U-boat commander to care for the Royal Sceptre's crew. Later, the Royal Sceptre crew turned up safe in Bahia, Brazil. Other Berlin hotfoots: reports that "fat City men" hustle through London's financial district with steel helmets concealed under toppers; that English women are adopting a new helmet hairdo...