Word: convoying
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...port of Athens, and were unloading troops; that other transports were due at Salonika-only 60 miles from the nearest Germans in Bulgaria. Then came a far more solid hint. The Greeks announced that their destroyer Psara had sunk an Italian submarine as it attempted to attack a convoy on its way through the Aegean Sea: the convoy was presumablv British...
...first official statement since it merged with the Committee for Militant Aid, the American Student Defense League, Harvard Chapter, announced yesterday that it favors the use of American ships and American men in order to convoy supplies from the United States to Great Britain...
Secondly, since Great Britain is having ships sunk at a rate of twice her capacity to construct ocean-going crafts, sooner or later there will not be enough ships available. To prevent any such eventuality, the League proposes the use of American merchantmen and naval warships for convoy duty...
...Great Britain, that ships taking this aid are being sunk at twice the rate at which they are being built, and that to be effective, our supplies and armaments must get to Britain, we favor the immediate use of the United States Atlantic Fleet, ships and men included, to convoy these goods...
...with a sound verbal spanking, Reporter Frazer was booked by British authorities for speedy return on the next eastbound convoy ship...