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...quantities of provisions, ostensibly bound for Sweden but more likely for a sea-raider rendezvous (TIME, Oct. 30). When Despatch's men boarded her, Emmy's men opened her seacocks, scuttled the prize. Despatch passed through the Canal into the Pacific, perhaps to chase the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, which was believed to have rounded the Horn. Two German freighters which had taken refuge in Nagasaki, Japan since war's outbreak last week hastily changed their cargoes of soybeans for fuel...
BERGEN, Norway--The American freighter City of Flint, shunted about the seas since its capture a month age today by the German pocket battleship Deutschland, will unload its cargo here and sail for the United States as soon as possible, Captain Joseph A. Gainard said today...
...conference was held at the U.S. consulate after Capt. Gainard had broadcast to the United States an account of his ship's 26-day odyssey after its capture on Oct. 9 by the German pocket battleship Deutschland as a contraband carrier
...like to see a situation where we'd never sell another gun, another battleship or another projectile. I'd like to see the world stop destroying values and start creating values, and that would spell better business profits...
...Only other raider to return to her base was Count Dohna-Schlodien's Moewe (Gull), a converted freighter like the Wolf and deadliest German raider (her bag was about 50 ships, including the battleship King Edward...