Word: crewe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 2, 1914, the cruiser Emden lay in the tranquil, mountain-embraced harbor of Tsingtao, China, with its crew assembled on deck. Captain Karl von Müller, a man of Prussian gallantry and Goth insolence, read to the sailors a wireless message announcing war's declaration...
...November 8, 1914, the Emden was caught off Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser Sydney and set afire. Captain Miiller was captured, but his crew escaped ashore, hid in the jungle for weeks, found an old whaler, the Ayesha, refitted her, sailed 12,000 miles home around the Cape, dodging British destroyers through the Channel in a providential...
...German bombers had passed over a squadron of British warboats which were escorting home a disabled British submarine. The Nazis dropped bombs, but hit nothing. British high-angle guns and planes from a carrier shot down one bomber, injured another, forced a third to alight so that its crew was captured. The Isle of May story, said the Admiralty, was "another version of the North Sea lie" and probably referred to the fact that a Nazi bomber had plunked that day at a British destroyer but missed, done no damage...
...hands had drowned. Who then, Berlin asked, survived to 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...
Because of its importance in tremors arising from explosions, the new wave is expected to play a considerable part in proposed uses of the seismograph in army artillery observation, for the location of heavy enemy guns, and also for computation by a gun crew of their accuracy of fire. Both the discharge of a cannon and the explosion of a shell set up vibrations underground which can be traced by earthquake instruments...