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...battle was fought in the Gulf of Siam. Thai claimed that three French warships and probably the 7,880-ton French cruiser Lamotte-Picquet were sunk. Thai losses: none. The French claimed the sinking of one or two 2,000-ton Thai coast-guard ships and two, perhaps three, torpedo boats. French losses: none...
Admiral Leahy drove toward the silent town, through war-stricken countries where life was at a low ebb. He had left the cruiser Tuscaloosa at Barcelona, had driven through the mountains to Le Perthus, where only 23 months ago masses of defeated Loyalists jammed the narrow roads trying to reach the border. When he arrived at Lyon a special railway car was waiting. The diplomatic Admiral, long-faced, forceful, tactful, had come a long way to enter the world's most perplexing diplomatic labyrinth. It was a France in which most Frenchmen believed that their fate depended...
...work under way at Norfolk on three other old battlewagons: New York, Texas, Arkansas. The 14-inch guns on the New York and Texas, the 12-inch guns on the Arkansas cannot fire more than 20,000 yards, with this insufficient range would be helpless against a modern cruiser with 8-inch guns. Result: of the Navy's 15 battleships, only twelve (not counting the Wyoming') would be much good in combat. So the Navy had set to work to increase the ranges of the deficient trio by upping the guns' maximum elevation from...
...none of the prisoners could identify the captors, survivors of an Indian Ocean sinking who reached Hong Kong reported that the biggest troublemaker in the Pacific was the onetime British-owned Glengarry, a 7,100-ton merchantman captured by the Germans at Copenhagen and fitted out as an auxiliary cruiser. Its skipper: Count Felix von Luckner, who hoodwinked the British for eight months in World War I, while his Seeadler ran up a score of 15 ships in the Atlantic and Pacific, who boasted his exploits had never cost a life...
...communique also claimed the sinking by Italian naval units of a British submarine, an auxiliary cruiser, and a 3600-ton merchant ship...