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...Scharnhorst was waiting for a new propeller, British Intelligence reported. The battleship and her sister, the Gneisenau, had lain in Brest for over three months, and frequently R.A.F. reconnaissance took her picture, to make sure she was still waiting...
Luck: wootsk Puck: pootsk Lwow: voof Lodz: lutsch Pripet: pree'petch Brest Litovsk: bzhesch lit-ev'ski Bialystok: bia-ly'stock Vilna : vil'no Przemysl: pshe-meeshl...
...British claimed they had confirmation last week that the battleship Gneisenau had been bombed and definitely crippled as it lay in the harbor of Brest. That left Germany just two battleships (Tirpitz and Scharnhorst} and one pocket battleship (Lutzow or Admiral Scheer) in operation...
...Ukraine split with the Bolsheviks and signed a separate treaty with Germany on Feb. 9, 1918. But the Soviet armies drove into the Ukraine, to its capital, Kiev (see map, p. 24). Thereupon the Germans not only drove out the Reds, but forced them to accept the Treaty of Brest Litovsk (March 3), which, besides depriving Russia of a Caucasian slice which went to Turkey, Russian Poland, Finland, Georgia, Lithuania, Kurland, Livonia, Estonia and the Islands of the Moon Sound, provided for an independent Republic of the Ukraine...
With the Bismarck gone, the German fleet now includes only three capital ships. These are the Tirpitz, 35,000-ton sister ship of the Bismarck, and two 26,000-tonners, the Gneisenau and the Scharnhorst. Berthed at Brest, where they have been under steady attack by units of the Royal Air Force since mid-March, it is not likely that the latter two are in any condition to take a major part in the continuing Battle of the Atlantic...