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...week long the R. A. F. answered this new fury with fury, by hitting out at U-boat bases and airfields along the French and Lowlands coast. In a two-hour raid on Brest they caught an Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser repairing in dock. But though concentrating on submarine bases, the R. A. F. showed that it was still taking the long view. It was officially stated that the Short Stirling bomber, for which the British claim the best speed-range-load performance yet, was in service. It was unofficially guessed that the plane which flew to Cracow, Poland...
...himself, he put his country in the hands of Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, ousted him too late to divert his people's resentment from himself and his office. When the Republicans sent him into exile in 1931 he drove his own car to Cartagena, jauntily boarded a cruiser. His exile changed nothing. He was merely a king on his travels in France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy. Almost daily, long dispatches came to him from Spain. He studied them, grew encyclopedic on Spanish affairs, awaited confidently his restoration as a constitutional monarch...
...problem right off the bat. The capitulation of the French deprived Britain of important ports at Toulon, Oran, Bizerte, Algiers, Corsica; and the laying down of French arms left the flanks of the British in the Eastern basin bare. Accordingly a British squadron put two battleships and a battle cruiser out of action at Mers-el-Kebir (Oran) on July 3. This brilliantly executed attack was led by Vice Admiral Sir James Fownes ("Slim") Somerville, whose knowledge of naval traditions is indicated by the fact that his hobby is the highly technical one of making ship models, whose energy...
...merchant port. Over 300 tons of shells flew into docks, warehouses, oil tanks, power stations, supply ships, harbor installations, and into the electric and boiler works of the huge Ansaldo shipbuilding plant. In the whole operation, only one Swordfish was lost. The squadron included the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Renown, the 31,000-ton battleship Malaya, a veteran of Jutland, the 22,000-ton aircraft carrier Ark Royal, the 9,100-ton cruiser Sheffield, and a covering guard of smaller vessels. The commander again was Sir James Somerville...
...clash between plane and fighting ship, the ship has come out well. Only one armored ship at sea, the cruiser Southampton, has been sunk through bombing alone; only one aircraft carrier, the Illustrious, has been badly hurt by the machine it nests. Both these encounters took place in the Sicilian channel last month (TIME, Jan. 27), and by last week attenuating circumstances had been discovered for both cases. A lucky hit on the Southampton started a fire inboard, which necessitated scuttling; and according to a statement last week by U. S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, it appeared that...